I’ve got a reason for my daily blog lapse!
(don’t you always?)
But seriously! With the Japanese Language Placement Test N1 on my plate for Sunday, I couldn’t hardly focus on anything other than my own looming doom. I get some mercy for that, right?
(no!)
Continue reading We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging thanks to: The JLPT N1
Hey Everybody!
Tonight’s the last night of my Louisiana thanksgiving vacation extravaganza. I had an absolutely great time, caught up with old friends, and ate dangerously. All in all, a success. Well, in most ways. How’s my 1000 word/day fiction target and one blog a day working out?
| Date | Fiction Written | Non-Fiction Written | Total Written |
| 11/25/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/24/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/23/2012 | 1069 | 800 | 1869 |
| 11/22/2012 | 1045 | 1063 | 2108 |
| 11/21/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/20/2012 | 1034 | 991 | 2025 |
| 11/19/2012 | 1062 | 640 | 1702 |
| 11/18/2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
…Oh.
Hey man, I know it’s hard. You’re sitting down at the keyboard, busting out your latest masterpiece, and you’re thinking:
“Man, characterization is tough! What if I just did it for my protagonist and no one else?” Continue reading Can We Have At Least Two Interesting Characters?
A few months ago, I wrote an article called Things I’m Sick of Reading. It was a pretty fun jaunt, mostly covering the things in Science Fiction and Fantasy that I’d gotten sick of after reading just one short story anthology. Since then, I’ve scribbled down a few pretty odious phrases for posterity. They’re not necessarily the worst phrases around, but they keep popping up, like sewage-smell after a Baton Rouge monsoon.
Without further ado, here they are:
Gregory Blake 