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Category Archives: About writing
Writing life: Politics short-term & long-term
There are several cool things I could do tonight of a (contemporary) political nature, but instead I'm going to work on my story involves a different kind of politics, in a society that governs itself by consent.
Also posted in NaNoWriMo Tagged Asura (Long Dark), consensus, Consensus (Cold), NaNoWriMo 2007, NaNoWriMo 2009, sociocracy, writing Leave a comment
Writing life
A writer's progress report: reading up for the design of Consensus in Cold & Long Dark; work on "Trading Shirts"; revision of "Itch" from Finer.
Building Consensus
How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.
Also posted in Cold, No Way Way Tagged Battle of Washita River, civility, Cold notes, collaborative decisionmaking, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Dena'ina, good government bad government, Harming none do as you will, integrity, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Turnbull, Mars, Mars Trilogy, NaNoWriMo 2007, Pavonis Mons, Peter Kalifornsky, science fiction, selfhood, sociocracy, storymind, terraforming, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing 2 Comments
My story of 2009
Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
Also posted in Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner, depression Tagged Alaska Commons, Alaska Judicial Council, Alaska Legislature, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Anchorage Press, Arliss Sturgulewski, Bent Alaska, cave, Celtic Diva, Columbia Sussex, couch, Crossed Genres, Dad, Dan Sullivan, Dave, death, Eddie Burke, Floridana Alaskiana v2.5, Grandpa Claude, Green family, Green-Lieght family, grey, Grrlzlist, Heather Aronno, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, James Bopp Jr., Jane Angvik, Janson Jones, Jesse, John Aronno, Julius, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, lima beans, Linda Kellen Biegel, Mark, Mark Begich, Melz published work, Mer, Miller v. Carpeneti, Mom, my apartment, NaNoWriMo 2009, Nicholas Hughes, One in 10, Palin ethics complaints, PrideFest, Progressive Alaska (blog), Ptery, Sarah Palin, Sean Cockerham, SOSAnchorage.net, Stef Gingrich, Summer of Hate, sunflowers, True Diversity Dinner 2009, Väi the cat, veto, Vic Fischer, violence against women, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR), writing 2 Comments
October plans
October. Change of seasons, change of gears: I'll be resuming my title of occasional political blogger by becoming a far less occasional writer. Plans for October include gearing up for NaNoWriMo in November.
Also posted in Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo Tagged Cold notes, Crossed Genres, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, science fiction, writing 1 Comment
Repetitive stress injuries
My Aussie friend Sian told me a few years back that the difference between the Aussie (& British, no doubt Commonwealth) usage whinge & the word more commonly used by Americans, whine, is that to whine is simply to complain, whereas to whinge is to complain about something that you are justified in complaining about. [...]
Also posted in Journal, Terveys Tagged obstacles to writing, RSIs (repetitive stress injuries), whinge 2 Comments
Lessons from Froomkin
I’ve been catching up somewhat on stuff in the wider political world outside the Anchorage equal rights ordinance battle. Having been so focused on AO 2009-64, it wasn’t until early this morning that I learned Dan Froomkin had been fired from the Washington Post — more properly, from its online version at washingtonpost.com — & [...]
Also posted in Alaska politics Tagged Anchorage Daily News, blogs, Dan Froomkin, integrity, journalism Leave a comment
NaNoWrimoLesbo
NaNoWrimoLesboOriginally uploaded by yksin I did this icon, based on the main NaNoWriMo icon, for a Facebook group for lesbians/dykes who are writing novels during NaNoWriMo this November, and/or who have lesbian/dyke characters in the novel they’re going to be doing; or who are friends/family offering moral support to either of the above. Dunno if [...]
Also posted in LGBTQA writers, NaNoWriMo Tagged lesbian, lgbtq, NaNoWriMo 2007, writing Leave a comment
Time to remind myself
I wear this pin on my hat. My brother & sister-in-law got me one of these pins for Christmas, or maybe it was my birthday, several years ago — maybe back in ’97 or ’98, because I remember telling people on a writing list I started about it, & one of them even ordered her [...]
The Daily Tweets, 2010-04-15: Writing life