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Tephra L. Davis
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July 13th, 2010

I write like....

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So, at some point after I did this post, the site got tweaked and now there are links to a vanity publisher and a hook to collect email addresses. I trust my friends are savvy enough not to buy into the bull. Some of you are already published, others I know are still hunting publishers, and all of you know that you should be paid for publishing your book and not pay out for it. So for the random passers-by, have fun with the toy if you want (though using it will likely increase the Google search rank of the vanity publisher) but don't supply an email address and don't follow the links.

NaNo '06 - This one was a fantasy novel set on an alien world.

I write like
J. R. R. Tolkien

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NaNo '07 - This one was a cyberpunk novel.

I write like
Mario Puzo

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NaNo '08 - This was steampunk with plot flailing issues, it's probably actually two stories all scrambled together.

I write like
Dan Brown

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*cries*

Let's try that again, from the middle of the story rather than my "opening day" writing (even if I do like my opening scene):
I write like
Edgar Allan Poe

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I can live with that, especially considering how the stor(y|ies) developed.

NaNo '09 - Urban fantasy with so many problems I may end up cutting it up into a collection of short stories or novellas to save the interesting bits.

I write like
H. G. Wells

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June 4th, 2010

You shall love me and despair...?

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Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

"Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

I think this might be the most surprising "personality quiz" result I have ever received.

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March 19th, 2010

Before it is no longer the 19th

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I should probably remark on being another year older, and presumably wiser. I'm not huge on doing something special for my birthday, but it's nice to have it acknowledged. To me birthdays aren't so much about age (other than those significant ones like "you are now old enough to get a driver's lilcense/vote/buy your own damned beer/etc") but as a day that people might say "I'm glad you were born so I could meet you". So far I'm running about equal with comments from people and from computers, the computers have the advantage of better memories for dates. ;)
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December 2nd, 2009

My music tastes are... odd.

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Swiped from MorganaLilith@LJ:

Go to Pop Culture Madness (http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/2006.html) and select the year you became 18. Snip the top 50 songs (or however many may be there) from the list and paste the list in your journal. Bold the ones you like, strike the ones you dislike, italicize the ones you know but don't care one way or another, and leave the ones you don't know as plain text.

Apparently I didn't dislike any of them. )
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November 30th, 2009

DONE!

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It has been a slog. I spent more days behind the quota than ahead of it. The first fifteen thousand words or more could be cut off and nothing of substance would be lost. The story has no end because the plot barely started to congeal before it fell apart. But I'm okay with all that because I kept writing anyway. And I do love Apollonia, Marcus, Abraham, Ersilia, and Muriel and I think they could get together into something with a real plot at some point. Maybe next year even. :D

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November 3rd, 2009

On target

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Still no plot really, but there are a few more characters, which will help. Of course two of them were mostly filler, though I don't think Muriel is inclined to stay that way. Other than that there was also some world building today, or rather, world enhancing since I think I'm writing what amounts to "this world plus supernatural beings".

November 2nd, 2009

Still no plot

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But I'm feeling around the edges of one, maybe. At least I'm getting words down which makes this much better than this time last year.

One thing I have noticed in my various NaNo stories is that when I'm stumped for what to write and it's logical for my characters to eat, or I'm getting hungry myself, they eat and I tend to describe the food. These are the sorts of things that would be cut, logically, but sometimes I think these would also be great places for endnotes and a recipe section at the end of the novel. :D

October 30th, 2009

Well I have a name at least

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This is mostly so when I'm freaking out next year I will have proof that in 2009, as in 2007, I didn't have anything until a character showed up on the 29th.

I don't know what Apollonia does but she's making herself comfortable.

Now I need at least a genre and maybe a second character, based on past NaNo novels I can get something if I have that much.

September 29th, 2009

Already thinking about November

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Yes, I intend to write another partial novel this year. I have no idea what I am going to write but the odds are it will be something in the science fiction and fantasy continuum as usual.

Also as usual, I've been getting pings off my older NaNo attempts. Last year's story was really hard to write, I spent the first half of the month whining (sorry Kris!) and writing was about as easy and pleasant as pulling teeth. Once I moved the story from England to New England it started rolling for me and ended up picking up things I hadn't expected, like alchemy and alchemists that aren't what they seems and occult books that manipulate events and people around them... and Lovecraft's cousin. Needless to say that story is a bit of a mess. The last few days have found my brain turning that tangled knot in all directions and tugging on things that look like they might lead to loose ends. I think I might know how to untangle it now.

And that is how I know that NaNo is coming, because my brain never gets enchanted with the older stories until it knows it has to start coming up with a new one.

June 15th, 2009

Wow, just wow

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Someone made a Wall-E from bits and pieces of, well, junk. I am in awe.

May 14th, 2009

Frat Boys need not apply, no Creepy Guys either

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Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...

The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF)

Quirky Liberal Alpha Female

The hardest part about being the Renn. Faire Wench is that people often mistake you for a beta female. This is not so. You might be quite flirtatious, but you are hardly relient [sic] on men. You like to do things the mainstream would consider weird, (like dress in costume, perhaps?). Eat, drink, and be merry, but make sure whoever you date respects you and does not take advantage of your laid-back attitude. (BTW, you are likely the only type who can see That Creepy Guy (NLBM) for who he is, helping him to bring out the Manga Geek (QLBM) inside. This does not mean you have to date one, however. You are quite flexible and can enjoy the company of many of the types.)

You are more QUIRKY than NORMAL.

You are more LIBERAL than TRADITIONAL.

You are more DOMINANT than PASSIVE.

When picking a date, consider: The Lord of the Misfits (QLAM), The Fratt [sic] Boy (NLAM), The Snowball's Chance in Hell (QTBM), The Manga Geek (QLBM), or That Creepy Guy (NLBM).

(Image from http://www.buycostumes.com/Lock-Lace-Bodice-Navy-Renaissance-Collection-Adult/27296/ProductDetail.aspx)

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April 9th, 2009

I survived!

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About ten minutes on the phone, and on the air (WKMT northern Michigan). A few verbal flubs, minor ones, and I was probably talking a bit fast, but I think it went okay.

I also got to put an email address out on the radio, custom set up for today, so if anyone is looking for a computer geek in northern Michigan they can chat with one that did a little work on CASPER.
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April 8th, 2009

OMG I'm nuts!

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So I went to the Job Fair today. I was exceedingly wound up about it last night and this morning and managed the world's fastest total revision of a resume ever I think. I printed out fifteen, enough for about half the employers, as if fifty percent was a reasonable match rate. I didn't need that many of course, I think I handed out three and one of those was to Kelly Services. The employers represented were basically military, law enforcement, health care, and food service. Not a very encouraging pool.

Anyway, onto the nuts part. The part giving me butterflies so big they might as well be fruit bats.

I spotted a listing of job categories with the local radio broadcasters. While I know nothing about, and have no interest in, working the public side of radio, I do know computers so I chatted a bit and they aren't looking right now but I can submit a resume. Pretty standard for the geekier positions around here.

And he actually skimmed it.

And noticed a little bit about working on the Cassini project's mission planning software.

And he's really good at talking people into things.

So around 8:10am I'm going to get a phone call and talk about working on that software for about 10-15 minutes on the radio.

I'm going to die.
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March 6th, 2009

But sometimes the ordinary do extraordinary things...

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Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...

The Citizen

39% Elegant, 52% Technological, 67% Historical, 40% Adventurous and 23% Playful!

You are the Citizen, the embodiment of steampunk’s everyday side. You realize that there is far more to a rich, living environment than adventurers and lunatic engineers. For every gentleman-scientist or airship fleet admiral there are a dozen or more “ordinary people” who prevent the genre from devolving into a mass of cardboard caricatures, and you take pride in exploring the great diversity of a steampunk world’s population. Your clothing could easily come from any social group or society, and you are equally liable to dress upper, middle, or working class. However, the unifying feature to your fashion sense is that it does not get carried away with “looking steampunk,” instead creating a person who could have just stepped out of the crowd in a novel. Some people may claim that your style is too close to historical accuracy to be steampunk, but fortunately you know better.



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January 30th, 2009

Pretty much as expected :D

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NerdTests.com says I'm an Uber Cool Nerd Queen.  Click here to take the Nerd Test, get geeky images and jokes, and talk to others on the nerd forum!
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January 10th, 2009

Oh, Ravelry :D

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Casey is awesome. His prank on the Rubberneckers would be something for [info]clairvoyantwank I think.

The more I explore Ravelry the more I think we'll need a fiberwank comm here, [info]godsmagickpubes has been suggested before, I like it.

Edit: And page 17 brings the wank1. Still going as of page 23 and every time I finish a page there is another page to read.

Edited Edit: Post frozen (archived) by mod at page 26. Time will tell if it gets thawed.

1. From people that have been rubbernecked, not the Rubberneckers, who where mostly amused with the prank. Not the direction I was expecting the wank to come from.
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Either my friends missed this...

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Or I missed them finding it.

A dragon made of CAKE!

And he's (she's?) a gamer, or snacks on them, there's a d20 there under that foreclaw. :D

December 18th, 2008

Rest in peace Number One

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Majel Barrett Roddenberry has died. Most people know she was Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the computer, but I was always fondest of her role as the original Number One.

December 6th, 2008

LibraryThing

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Any of my journaling friends over there? I joined mostly to try to get around the lameness of the library section of Ravelry (no go, it won't add books that aren't already in the Ravelry database) and now I'm stuck with a lonely account.

I'm going to limit myself to adding books I can physically put my hands on (as opposed to ebooks and things that are currently one thousand miles away) so my inventory there will be skewed away from fiction but maybe it won't be too boring for other people to browse.
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November 8th, 2008

NaNo snippit

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Ian returned to the room with a suspiciously thick book, about twice the thickness of most pocket diaries of the size, a small box, and a pair of keys. The last was just a bit too much for Sarah.

"You have a lock and key fetish don't you?" She clapped an hand over her mouth in the next instant, blushing fiercely, "I'm sorry, that was incredibly inappropriate. I'm sorry."

Prudence laughed, a delighted and full throated chortle, "I knew you had a wicked turn of mind, dear cousin!"

Ian just blinked, staring at them both, "I suppose I do, actually, is it that obvious?" He managed to look oblivious and confused just long enough for Sarah to start to wonder if he really was that guileless, and then he broke into a wicked smile and winked at her. "If you want to know for certain I'm sure I could free up an evening for you, dearest Sarah."



Unedited, needless to say, but I am amused. I had no idea Ian would be such a flirt when I started writing him.
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