ZOMG!
jimbutcher posted.
...um, yes. Post. By Jim Butcher, who is a fairly entertaining author and whose journal is made mostly of good, clear posts on craft aspects of storytelling, especially for genre fiction.
In other news, my illusions of actually living in a city were brutally shattered by two kangaroos in an area of open park-like space. They were just sitting there, minding their own business, but still. There. Right there, watching nonchalantly and kind of annexing a shadowy patch of overgrown grass in the name of the countryside. Kangaroos? In my city? As it happens, much more likely than I'd thought.
At least wombats I could understand. If they were building a shiny new city, and were equipped with all the appropriate machines and technologies to move heavy things and flatten stuff and whatever else, they'd still have to build around the wombat. Some people think that cockroaches are the only thing that'll survive when we bomb each other flat with nuclear weapons, but I disagree; those people just don't quite understand the staying power of not-really-a-ton of occasionally-belligerent wombat.
Especially once all those gamma rays turn them into little wombat!Hulks.
...um, yes. Post. By Jim Butcher, who is a fairly entertaining author and whose journal is made mostly of good, clear posts on craft aspects of storytelling, especially for genre fiction.
In other news, my illusions of actually living in a city were brutally shattered by two kangaroos in an area of open park-like space. They were just sitting there, minding their own business, but still. There. Right there, watching nonchalantly and kind of annexing a shadowy patch of overgrown grass in the name of the countryside. Kangaroos? In my city? As it happens, much more likely than I'd thought.
At least wombats I could understand. If they were building a shiny new city, and were equipped with all the appropriate machines and technologies to move heavy things and flatten stuff and whatever else, they'd still have to build around the wombat. Some people think that cockroaches are the only thing that'll survive when we bomb each other flat with nuclear weapons, but I disagree; those people just don't quite understand the staying power of not-really-a-ton of occasionally-belligerent wombat.
Especially once all those gamma rays turn them into little wombat!Hulks.
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Date: 2007-11-20 04:02 am (UTC)