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Archive for January, 2010

Avatar: Dances with Pocahontas in Space?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Okay, so I finally got around seeing Avatar in 3D at the local IMAX. (Tickets are still selling out a week in advance– crazy!) By now, anything I say about it will be old news, but I’m still interested in analyzing it from a writer’s perspective. We all know it’s a beautiful movie, with amazing [...]

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Getting my Feet Wet

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Two weeks ago I dusted off my backpacking gear, which has sat unused for over a year, and went backpacking on Shackleford Banks, a little island on the southern edge of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s only about nine miles long by half a mile wide (if that), but it’s a cool little island. Among [...]

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I’m Dreaming of a White… er… Groundhog’s Day?

Posted in Life, tagged , , on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s not often that you get snowed in in North Carolina, but here I am. At least I’ve got Internet, power, and water… and as long as the leftover pizza holds out, I should be okay. At least it gives me an excuse to catch up on the blog. By the way, if anyone from [...]

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The Frozen Apple

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Somehow everytime I visit New York City it ends up being in the dead of winter. I hear the temperature occasionally creeps above freezing there, maybe sometime between March and October, but I don’t recall ever seeing it myself. Anyway, last weekend I boarded a plane about the size of a compact car, along with [...]

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Novel Status Update: Does Mulling Things Over Count as “Work”?

Posted in Writing, tagged , on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Since NaNoWriMo ended, I’ve actually gotten a fair bit of writing done… unfortunately, very little of it has been on my novel. Instead, I’ve been following my muse on little flights of fancy, writing a few short stories that are too far off the weirdness scale to do much with. They’ve been fun to write, [...]

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Happy New Year and Decade

Posted in Life, tagged , , on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Happy New Year, everyone! There are a lot of unwritten stories to be told in the upcoming year and decade, both on paper in real life. I always find it exciting to reflect on the future, to realize that from here, our lives really are unwritten stories, and we can take them anywhere we choose. [...]

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