Haven’t posted much recently, sorry about that. Just got home from a trip to NYC to visit friends and family – family got cut out because of the blizzard, but I got to hole up with a friend and watch movies for hours on end, and that ranks in my book as a pretty great [...]
|
||||
|
September 18th, 2009
Recent posts by Kristin Nelson and Josh Olson (via Janet Reid) got me thinking about this. At age 15 my writing abilities were far above those of my peers. Any essay I turned in, no matter how vapid, met universal praise. Many teachers assured me that this would one day be my career. It was very [...] September 17th, 2009
The new Flaming Lips album Embryonic, is streaming in its entirety over on Colbert Nation. I’ve been listening to it all day at work. This is a good day. I’m currently “reading” Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age. I use the quotes because I am experiencing the novel on audiobook, as I do most of the novels [...] September 16th, 2009
More than 20 literary agents have been sent queries for Volve this week, the first time in the book’s long life that I’ve made this kind of effort toward publication. I finished the third rewrite a couple of weeks ago, and I have a good feeling about this version. The rewrite tightened up the narrative [...] August 12th, 2009
I used to pride myself on being a language nerd, but that changed this week. First I discovered coordinate adjectives. My understanding had been that separating adjectives with commas was always incorrect. Not so! “Coordinate adjectives,” that is adjectives that modify a noun in the same way, are properly separated by a comma. The [...] |
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2005-2010 Christopher Keelty - All Rights Reserved |
||||
Recent Comments