From the monthly archives: September 2009
Western…on the schoolyard
Big Lucy’s Black Hats were the terror of recess. No snack cake was spared their greed, no shin spared their wrath. The teachers were useless. The Black Hats were the queens and kings of Tombstone Elementary, and they knew no one could challenge them.
No one, that is, until [...]
Happy Banned Books Week! This week is the time when we celebrate the freedom to read what we like, a right that we have embedded in our Bill of Rights.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the [...]
Western…as religion
Bobby Joe believed in The Gun. He had met other Marshals, men and women who appeared pious, but who threw aside the Lessons of The Gun as it suited them. To them, wielding the gun was about power. To Bobby Joe, however, it was about salvation. Out here in the [...]
I don’t watch a whole lot of television, but I don’t dare miss an episode of PROJECT RUNWAY. As an examination of the creative process and an intriguing character study of the kind of people who chose to make creation their life, it’s hard to beat. Plus, you get fashion shows and the idiosyncratic charm [...]
This week’s theme, “The New Adventures of…” was alot of fun for me, being a history nerd. Anytime you can make our only peglegged founding father talk like teenybopper is good time, as far as I’m concerned.
Jason (Anthraxus) provided the sole prompt in this week’s comments, so he gets the post [...]
You thought I forgot, didn’t you?
The deal with freelancing and spinning a lot of plates means some inevitably get neglected. I continue to update the ISBW PDF but I just hadn’t gotten around to actually editing and getting it turned into PDF format. Thankfully, the mighty Phil Lunt has come to my rescue and [...]
The New Adventures of…Gouverneur Morris.
Dear Diary,
Today was ever so fine, as I was finally able to woo the Lady Westword away from her husband and to join me for some discrete necking and some indiscrete innuendo under the pear branches. Clearly Charles knew nothing when he said my cravat [...]
00:00:07 ISBW #132 00:01:12 Mur tackles ISBW administrative activities 00:02:49 Mur names her new assistant, Carrie Kei Heim Binas — check out Carrie’s writing blog at Heim Binas Fiction 00:03:37 State of the Mur update: finishing recording War, edits from agent on Heaven, more work on Project Underground, and then
I’ve podcasted and written a bit on villains/antagonists and how to make them believable, but the ever-eloquent and so-damned-talented-I-want-to-hate-her-but-I-cant JR Blackwell said it so much better in this blog post.
A villain can be many things – from the casual cruelty of the hobbyist to the concentrated machinations of an expert. But Arching, the true [...]
The New Adventures of…Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
“Nicky, are you quite sure this is going to work?”
“You’ve never doubted me before, Sam.”
“Before, it was all experiments and labratories and…I’m holding a ray gun, for Pete’s sake!”
“As am I. And we’ll need them if we have any [...]
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