From Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu that diverted to give passengers a view of the total eclipse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoa81xEvNA
Author: Elizabeth
Writer, photographer, married, mother. Also native plants, wildlife, music, horses, curiosity unlimited, time limited. Pronouns she, her
Tuesday Mixed Bag
Yesterday was my birthday, so…other things got done than a post here. So what’s interesting right now? How about two urban predators mixing it up on the street in front of a lucky photographer? http://www.nhm.org/nature/blog/hawk-attacks-snake-and-epically-fails There’s another pair in the same post…that time reptile v. reptile. Several good Twitter science accounts to follow: https://twitter.com/carlzimmer Award-winning Read More…
This Writer’s Saturday
I stayed up until after midnight Friday, working on the rewrites, and then was later than usual getting up today. More work on rewrites today, now working front to back to shape toward the new ending. In amongst the computer sessions came the other stuff. As soon as the light was bright enough picked up Read More…
Whirlwinds…
Working on the rewrite of Cold Welcome. On Monday, I sent Editor the latest draft of the new ending, and in light of Editor’s comments worked on it some more, then started in on front-to-back run (actually crawl!) through combining her original letter, the marked up manuscript line edits, and the changes that would be Read More…
Monday Science Links
For those who aren’t averse to spiders, a great link of links from Arthropod Ecology Frog enthusiasts: follow @MyFrogCroaked (Jonathan Kolby) on Twitter. Lots of images of gorgeous tropical (New World so far) frogs and other amphibs. Interested in coastal waters and the societies that live near/on them? Follow @hakaimagazine on Twitter. Scientist and writer Read More…
Progress Report
The new ending that used to be somewhere else entirely has been grafted onto the old one, and though it looks a little strange now (“What is that crocodile head doing on that sheep?” the observer might ask) it’s all coming together. Once I saw the legs off the sheep, stretch it lengthways, paint the Read More…
RSS Feeds
There’ve been questions about RSS feed(s). On the sidebar on the right, down at the bottom, there’s a section headed “Meta.” There they are. I feel really…unobservant, if not stupid, for not noticing that before. My web guru, when I asked her to add RSS, pointed out they already existed. Hope this helps!
Tuesday Toolkit for Writers
Every person has a toolkit, a set of skills (physical, mental, emotional) that they use to navigate their life. When you learn something–anything–it becomes part of that toolkit, and the more tools you have, the more of life’s challenges you can handle with less strain than the person without those skills, that knowledge, that attitude. Read More…
Monday Science: Thanks, Twitter
Writers must read, and science fiction writers must read science, engineering, technology especially if not actively engaged in doing STEM stuff. But we still have only 24 hours a day. How to make time? How to find cool stuff? Journals help, but skimming several journals a week still doesn’t fill the well. Twitter, used carefully, Read More…
Backing Up a Little
Cold Welcome is not the first book in the Vatta Universe, so the new book has under it the foundation built by Vatta’s War. Yet it needs to be understandable to new readers without their having to buy the first five books. This is not meant to discourage anyone from buying the first five books Read More…