by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on March.4.2010
If you want one of those cookies, you better move fast! Act now before they’re gone!
Farts are often followed by laughter.
Naked dangling body parts don’t even phase you anymore.
You’re constantly picking up dirty socks and underwear that aren’t yours.
Light-saber battles and arguments over G.I. Joe action figures are frequent occurrences.
You have to hide your box of [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on February.25.2010
You want to be a member of Starfleet when you grow up.
The announcement of new technology or gadgets make your heart beat faster.
You actually try to use The Force to pick up your cell phone.
Ero Anime is way more enticing to you than porn.
The idea of Live Action Avatar Roleplaying doesn’t sound too horrible.
The only [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on February.9.2010
And here it is – my newly redesigned website/blog! *beams proudly*
What I especially love about this theme, besides how gorgeous it is and how much attention to detail my husband paid on the artwork, is that this was very much an enjoyable collaborated effort between the both of us. He created the design and the [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on February.4.2010
Okay, so I’m a little late in posting my goals for the new year, but that’s because I’ve been busy working to achieve them!
Here are this year’s goals:
Write at least 1500 words every day. This would take me about 2 hours a day to accomplish, more or less. Very doable. If I’m in editing mode, [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on December.9.2009
Okay, the months seem to be shrinking as I get older. I could swear that I was just shopping for Halloween costumes a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m shopping for Christmas which is just a couple of weeks away. I hope this isn’t a progressive trend as the years go by, because at [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on December.2.2009
December’s here (boy did it arrive fast) and thus November has ended and so has National Novel Writing Month. Here’s how it went for me:
MY STATS
Average writing speed: 600 words per hour
Average hours spent each day: 1 hour
Goal: 50,000 words written
Actual Words Written: 39,700 words and ~14,000 words edited
Result: 1 Novella rough draft completed and [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.26.2009
Thanksgiving day is here. I don’t usually give formal thanks, but this has been one especially crazy year. I’ve encountered more people who have lost their jobs, homes and loved ones than ever before, it seems. I have so very much to be thankful for.
I could go on about how thankful I am that [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.24.2009
This is it, the last week of NaNoWriMo! By no means has it been easy, but it has been fun and enlightening. We’re supposed to have around 40,000 words written by now, with just 10k more to go to hit our target of 50k.
Although I am only at around 30,000 words written, I’m feeling pretty [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.12.2009
There’s this piece of advice that is constantly given to aspiring writers, that goes something like “Make yourself write every day”. Or “Just keep writing” they say, and that there’s no such thing as a writer’s block or needing to be in a creative mood to write.
Well, I beg to differ.
For a while there, I [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.6.2009
At last it’s Friday, and I’m so happy I could cry. It has been a long, daunting week of non-stop work and missing my family.
What is interesting to me though is the fact that some people look forward to the opposite: getting away from their family. I’m not talking about your typical I-need-a-break-to-spend-some-me-time kind [...]