You’ve been visited by the Christmas Sheltie who brings order and structure to all the good sheep. And the less good sheep. Really, just all the sheep.
Author: marylowd
The Christmas Chronicles vs. The Santa Clause
If I’d been asked — without watching either The Santa Clause or The Christmas Chronicles — whether Tim Allen or Kurt Russell would make a better Santa, I’d have definitely guessed wrong. Continue reading “The Christmas Chronicles vs. The Santa Clause”
Idea To Be Tested
I’m on my third time through watching #CrazyExGirlfriend (once with my husband, then my mom, now my daughter), and I think I’ve had a revelation about how to go about constructing a complex romantic comedy… I’ll have to try outlining a novel to see if it works out.
Possible Source of Inspiration?
I just made it up to S1E20 of Andromeda (“Star-Crossed”) and it is reeeeeeaaaaaaally similar to Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice.”
The stuff about a living spaceship that has consciousness distributed across multiple different avatars that come to have slightly different loyalties is all there. Continue reading “Possible Source of Inspiration?”
Team George
I’ve re-watched all of George’s bits in the previous seasons, and he’s the only logical choice for a guy for Rebecca to end up dating. #CrazyExGirlfriend #TeamGeorge
This is a conclusion I’ve come to both from a fannish shipping which-guy-do-I-like-best? direction and also as a writer analyzing the show’s story structure. And if my theory is right, the creators have planned all along that Rebecca will end up dating George. Continue reading “Team George”
Apples to Apples Shenanigans
The kids convinced us to play Apples to Apples, and the highlight was an argument about what thing is the speediest that led to picturing a game of musical chairs played by a zebra and a ghost with cherries being thrown at them.
Furry Spreads to the Author & Artist Fair
Ways the Authors & Artists Fair is different this year: tons of people already know what furries are, and we’re being dance mobbed by people dressed up in holiday outfits. So, basically, it’s more like selling books at a furry con.
What I Have in My Pockets
11-year-old: “In your pockets, do you have…”
Me, emptying pockets of toys: “A raccoon, a lizard, a skeleton, and some silly putty…”
11: “I was hoping for a snack.”
Me: “Oh, no, I keep toys in my pockets, not food. You know that.”
Finishing Nexus Nine
I love it when my research is to do things like look at pictures of bears’ noses.
That feeling when you write the last few paragraphs of the first draft of your novel, and then you show them to your spouse, and they cause a deep philosophical discussion of physics… Continue reading “Finishing Nexus Nine”
Fatherly Approval, Writing, and Frogs
Today’s Doctor Who made me realize I should write frogs more often.
My novel-in-progress is now the fifth longest thing I’ve written, since it just passed up “In a Dog’s World” in length.
My father-in-law saw the news about me being a Guest of Honor at next year’s Midwest FurFest and called to tell me how impressed he is. I don’t talk to my own dad… so, this was really nice.