Tales from the Raven

I really hadn’t planned on entering this quarter, as I knew I didn’t have time to pull together a story from scratch.  But while working on other projects I came across an incomplete story I worked on two years ago but never got back to.  Ironically, I had intended it (in June of 2006) to [...]

I’m not sure how I missed blogging this.  I was so excited for Becca’s new status as an agented author while it was all developing, I was ready to receive circus training so I could better express my enthusiasm in cartwheels and backflips.  But, since I was able to chat it all out in a private writing forum [...]

We were out walking just after a big storm and went by the wetlands near our house.  It was just before dusk, and all the frogs were out, too.  They ranged in size from itty-bitty little guys the size of a small cricket who could hop maybe a quarter inch, to one good-sized fellow that would [...]

I was reading my daughter a slightly insipid but still enjoyable bedtime story–and, no, that’s not how I described it to her–when she interrupted.
‘Wait–that caterpillar said it’s going to make a cocoon, but that would mean it had to become a moth.  So why does it say it will be a butterfly?’
I had to laugh, [...]

I’m cutting, expanding, editing and re-working three stories right now.  All are being prepped for specific markets and have already been through a thousand and one edits, or so it feels.
And let me just say, keeping track of the versions can be a royal pain.
It should be simple.  Version 1, 2, 3, etc. ad inifinity.
But [...]

See if you can find the common thread:
More of the big guys still undiscovered in the ocean, but little chance of the Loch Ness turning up, or so they say.
A report on ten new species, though a little long on propaganda and a little short on information about the individual species.  Eight and four are my [...]

Have you ever wondered if your prof has been sitting around dusty tomes in moldy rooms for one year too many?  I had an incident like that this week.
I won’t go into particulars, but as a part of the senior project I recently turned in I was supposed to write a paper on the process [...]

I have my WorldCon schedule–and let me just say, it is sooo awesome to have a WorldCon schedule!
I’m on a panel Saturday at 2:30 (or 14:30) with the working title of ‘Getting to the top: Mountains in Fact and Fiction’.  Should be fun.
I’ll also be hanging out at the Hadley Rille Books Ruins signing, assuming such a [...]

I am done with my degree.
Done.
All done.
A few facts about the monster I’ve just slain:
I’ve sought five or six majors over the years, and ended up with the one I ranked most boring when I started.  As you can imagine, this means I’m weighing in a little heavy on the credits count–in these last two semesters alone I [...]

Otherwise I might think I was jinxed or something.  The exam I took today should have been relatively easy, as I’ve been prepping for over a week, and I should have had it wrapped up in less than one and a half hours.  Instead, it was a bruiser, definately in the top two hardest tests [...]