Apr 03 2008
Quote of the Day
“Life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
“Success is 1% swagger and 99% dagger.” — Cadet Davis
Archive for April, 2008
Apr 03 2008
Everything is Better with Zombies
9 out of 10 writers (good ones, anyway) agree that anything will become better if you add zombies. That’s why Maureen Johnson has expanded her Insert a Zombie contest, where you write a paragraph up to 250 words that takes someone else’s scene and adds some brain-eating.
Scott Westerfeld offers us this take on Charles Dickens. In fact, it is probably the only good thing to ever come of Charles Dickens.
It was the best of apocalypses, it was the worst of apocalypses. It was an age of brain eating, it was an age of shotguns. It was the epoch of damaging the head, or of removing it from the body. It was the season of light infantry weapons, it was the season of dark pursuits through abandoned sewers. We had everything at the local mall before us, but there were too many zombies in the way. In short, the period was so far like the present period—except for, you know, all the frickin’ zombies.
Apr 02 2008
Site Update: Review of SIWBI
I have overhauled my review of Soon I Will Be Invincible. I cut its length by about a quarter (from 2750 to about 2000 words). It is now down to a hair over 2000 words (instead of ~2750) and Davis was kind enough to reformat it for me.
Apr 02 2008
Quote of the Day
He who has the gold makes the rules, but he who has the golden gun enforces them.
–J.M.
I’d like to add that creating witty lines is terribly difficult for me. B. Mac had damn well get better soon; this is killing me.
