Category Archives: Writing

New Year Linkdump

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Cora

I was out all day today, at the traditional new year’s day meet-up with some friends of my parents in Teufelsmoor (devil’s moor) north of Bremen. I spent a lot of time in Teufelsmoor as a kid and so I … Continue reading →

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Boxing Day Update and some Links

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Cora

Yesterday was Boxing Day, or the second day of Christmas as we call it in these parts*, so Christmas 2010 is officially over. Of course, inofficially the Christmas season lasts up to New Year and even to Epiphany Day, i.e. … Continue reading →

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So bad you can’t say it on TV

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Cora

Hal Duncan has a fantastic post about the one word in the English language that is so bad and so taboo that you cannot use it at all. And no, I’m not spelling it out on this blog. Not because … Continue reading →

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Frosty Days, Icy Nights

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Cora

This is the coldest night of the year, the coldest night in many years in fact. According to the weather forecast plug-in in my Firefox browser and the indoor/outdoor thermometer, we minus 13 degrees Celsius outside. Here in North Germany, … Continue reading →

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Just some links

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Cora

It’s still very cold and didn’t even get any higher than minus eight degrees or so all day long. Still snowing, too. There’s perhaps been another three centimeters or so of snow over night. What is more, I was away … Continue reading →

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Snow… and some links

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Cora

We did get a snowpocalypse of sorts today. It started snowing at around nine, then stopped briefly around noon, only to begin snowing again at one PM. My county, Landkreis Diepholz, did not close its school and thus my afternoon … Continue reading →

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Watching TV with Kids and Writing Links

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Cora

No new snow today, at least in my part of the country, just enduring frost. Since this is the last week of school before the Christmas holidays, I’m watching English language films with the kids. Most of the time, I … Continue reading →

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Real World Settings and Research Fallout

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Cora

There are many reasons I prefer writing fantasy and SF – one of them is that you don’t have to deal with the constraints imposed by real world settings. But some stories, unfortunately, insist on being set in the real … Continue reading →

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Links, Linguistics and Writing

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Cora

We’ve had more snow today. It started snowing in the morning and by the time I had to go to school for my afternoon class, I had to shovel the car free. It’s started snowing again sometime in the evening … Continue reading →

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Writing Wank

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Cora

Here are two writing links with a common theme, i.e. the importance of persistence in developing and sustaining a writing career: Brad Torgersen interviews Jay Lake for the Writers of the Future site and Catherine Schaff-Stump discusses Malcolm Gladwell’s book … Continue reading →

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