Book Review: More Than Meets the Eye by Wendy Cooper: 4/5 Stars

A review of More Than Meets the Eye by Wendy Cooper.

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Categories: Books, Reviews
Date: 2014-02-24 23:03:53, 10 years and 274 days ago

Writing Update

I finished up a new short story on Wednesday night, so I'm going to let it sit for a week or two and then re-edit it. In the mean-time I'll continue work on editing The Sword and The Hawk, and hopefully get started on a separate novella I'm planning.

Categories: Writing
Date: 2014-02-21 23:03:54, 10 years and 277 days ago

Writing Update

Just a quick update on the status of my writing. The first few chapters of The Sword and The Hawk are with my mum proofreader, and I'm a fair chunk of the way through an unrelated Sci-Fi short story, which is probably going to end up being around 3,000-5,000 words. I'm hoping to pick up the pace on my writing, but still, I'm getting things done, even if more slowly than I'd like.

Categories: Writing
Date: 2014-02-16 23:03:54, 10 years and 282 days ago

My New Vegetable Garden

Continuing my streak of not posting the first chapters of the Sword and the Hawk I've planted a vegetable garden, in an old garden bed which was full of plants I didn't actually like, and I decided to share some pictures of it (click for bigger):

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Categories: General
Date: 2014-01-23 23:03:54, 10 years and 306 days ago

Deadlines and Not Keeping Them

Well, I've missed the first week of January deadline for publishing the first chapter.

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Categories: Meta, Writing
Date: 2014-01-09 23:03:53, 10 years and 320 days ago

Sophism and Falling Trees

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

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Categories: Philosophy
Date: 2013-12-18 23:03:54, 10 years and 342 days ago

The Sword and the Hawk Update

Well I finished what I'm going to call a first draft on Tuesday, but kept forgetting to post about it. The rough draft is 51,000 words, and obviously still needs some rework. Yes, that means it took me over a week to write a thousand words; though I did do a bit of other stuff as well. I wanted to catch up on various chores that had fallen behind over November, but I should still be on track for having the first chapter posted here by January like planned.

Categories: Writing
Date: 2013-12-12 23:03:54, 10 years and 348 days ago

4 for $10 Meal 2: Fried Rice

I haven't forgotten about my plan to post some budget meal recipes, I was just busy with NaNoWriMo. So here's the next installment of 4 for $10: fried rice.

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Categories: Recipes
Date: 2013-12-06 23:03:53, 10 years and 354 days ago

Harvard Classics Volume 2 - Dialogs, Sayings, and Meditations

A little while before NaNoWriMo started I decided to start reading through the Harvard Classics/Five-foot Bookshelf. I figure I'll give myself the basics of an old-school liberal arts education. Since Volume 1 is rather American focused I decided to skip it and go straight to Volume 2. I ended up slowing down a lot due to NaNoWriMo, but I got the last part of Volume 2 done on Monday.

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Date: 2013-12-04 23:03:54, 10 years and 356 days ago

NaNoWriMo 2013 Postscript

Well, I've completed NaNoWriMo for 2013, which means I know I can write reasonably fast. ;-)

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Categories: Writing
Date: 2013-12-02 23:03:54, 10 years and 358 days ago