The Hunger Games

Have burned through the trilogy in the past 2 days. Thought CATCHING FIRE was by far the strongest, but thought MOCKINGJAY ended the whole story appropriately. Heartstabbily, but appropriately. If I get my…self…together I’ll write a more through commentary in the next few days, but my goodness, it’s been a long time since I’ve read 3 books in 2 days. (How sad is that?) The remainder of the week will be spent focusing hard on NO DOMINION revisions. (Honest, that’s why I read two books today. I was going to…

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Can’t resist. :)

Oh all right, I fibbed. I said I’d only post about Kickstarter stuff on the 3rd Tuesdays of each month but it turns out I can’t resist, especially because not mentioning things except monthly makes me feel like I’m neglecting some stuff I’m enthusiastic about. :) First Up! Judith Tarr, aka /dancinghorse, is in the last hours of her LIVING IN THREES revision project. It’s less than $400 from $6K, which will get all subscribers a before-and-after look at the manuscript & revision process. I said this once before about…

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farmer’s market!

We went shopping this morning to find some light bulbs, and on the way discovered a new farmer’s market! They’ve green grocers and a butcher and a breadmaker and a cheesemonger and a chocolatiere and people selling Italian sauces and Indian sauces and jams and wine and olives and fresh local milk! And other things too. :) We bought rather a lot of stuff! And then found our lightbulbs (not at the farmer’s market), so it was quite a successful morning, I’d say. Now off to shop for stuff for…

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NO DOMINION

Today I’m going to start NO DOMINION revisions, and also doing busywork stuff for the epub like putting the (FOUR PAGE!) acknowledgements list together. o.O If you are a NO DOMINION subscriber, and have not filled out the survey which asks for addresses, names, and other moderately important things, you should go check the Kickstarter page to see if the survey link is there in your upper left hand corner, because the emails apparently didn’t all go through, and some 75 people haven’t answered yet. Janne and a couple other…

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*proud*

The Word War Room is three years old today. Since I’d hoped, when I started it, that it would last six months, I’m very proud of it, and I’m still so happy at how many people log in and use it regularly to help them focus and get work done. If you want to join the war room as a participant, the above link tells you what it is and how it works. You have to join the Toonowrimo community to get the password, which there is a link to…

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