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The rules:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

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Anyone who thinks children are innately good is a fool. Children lie, steal, cheat, and attempt to harm others in order to get what they want. Children are innocent and may not understand that to hit another child in order to get their toy or sweet roll is wrong and hurtful, but that innocence does not make them good. The other child’s desire to hit back is also innocent and understandable, but still does not come from a place of innate goodness. Empathy, compassion, and a desire to help others is a legacy adults pass along to the children in their lives, hopefully before the child is to old to absorb it.

No. Children are not innately good. They are simply educable.
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Truth in advertising: This is actually the opening paragraph of my MS because I don't have anymore than that written. BUT I HAVE A NEW MS AND SO I WANTED TO PLAY.

[Moving over to Dreamwidth. Catch me over there as booksomewench. This entry cross-posted to both sites. Feel free to comment here or there.]

Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

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Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

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Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

January
*Mistress of Mellyn, Victoria Holt Review here

*Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

*How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier Review here

*Zofloya, or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre

*Austenland, Shannon Hale Review here

*Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games Review here

*Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers, R. Sean Borgstrom

*The Myth of Mars and Venus, Deborah Cameron

February
*Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Louise Hawes

*Lament, Maggie Stiefvater Review here

*Gender Trouble, Judith Butler Review here

*The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Wittig Review Here

*The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare Review Here

March
*Vampire: Dark Ages, Jennifer Hartshorn, Ethan Skemp, Mark Rein, and Hagen Hassall

*Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates Review Here

*The Shadow Queen, Anne Bishop Review Here

*Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

*The Darcys and the Bingleys, Marsha Altman Review here

*Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One, Sharon Lathan Review here

*I am Legend, Richard Matheson

*The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

*Othello, William Shakespeare

April
*Vampire: The Masquerade 2nd Ed, Graeme Davis, Mark Rein-Hagen, and Stewart Wieck

*Clanbook: Malkavian, Daniel Greenberg

*Clanbook: Setites, Richard Watts

*Clanbook: Brujah, Steve Crow

*Clanbook: Ravnos, Christopher Walters

*Clanbook: Cappadocian,Justin Achilli

*Clanbook: Lasombra, Richard E. Dansky

*Clanbook, Assamites, Graeme Davis

*Liege, Lord, and Lackey, Jason Carl, Tom deMayo, Michael Lee, and Wendy Soss

*Dark Ages Storyteller's Companion, Heather Grove, James Kiley, and Chris Hartford

*Libillis Sanguinis 1: Masters of the State, Craig Bolin, Richard E. Dansky, and Rob Hatch

*Bitter Crusade, Zach Bush, James Maliszewski, and Joshua Mosqueira-Asheim

*Macbeth, William Shakespeare

May
*Beauty, Robin McKinley

This list will be updated periodically (ie: when I remember)

We're eighteen full weeks into the new year, I've read thirty-five books and reviewed twelve. That means I've no worries about readin fifty books this year, but I'm already six behind for reviews (four if I don't mind getting rid of the two week buffer). No new reviews since March.

dqg_neal's local writing group is doing a short story contest. The final round of Critiques will be done by Ellen Datlow and Hildy Silverman.

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ddrpolaris, shogunhb, ladyscience, how_low_am_i, eenamae and everyone else who would just like to: please do not let me flake out on this. Nag me until I scream--but I will have a submission-worthy piece by May first. And if I don't--well, start by berating me severely and then work from there, okay?

...and boy are my arms tired.

No, really actually. There are a lot of uncorrected proofs, which require manual entry. Anyway, with this batch scanned I'm up to 1429 books, and shogunhb has 690. 696. I found a cache of unscanned uncorrected proofs, a gift from dark_towhead.

Bibliophiles...who us?

According to our software, if something horrible happened and we lost the house, we'd need almost $30K just to replace our books. On the one hand, that's awesome. On the other, it's terrifying.

Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

January
*Mistress of Mellyn, Victoria Holt Review here

*Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

*How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier Review here

*Zofloya, or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre

*Austenland, Shannon Hale Review here

*Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games Review here

*Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers, R. Sean Borgstrom

*The Myth of Mars and Venus, Deborah Cameron

February
*Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Louise Hawes

*Lament, Maggie Stiefvater Review here

*Gender Trouble, Judith Butler Review here

*The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Wittig Review Here

*The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare Review Here

March
*Vampire: Dark Ages, Jennifer Hartshorn, Ethan Skemp, Mark Rein, and Hagen Hassall

*Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates Review Here

*The Shadow Queen, Anne Bishop Review Here

*Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

*The Darcys and the Bingleys, Marsha Altman Review here

*Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One, Sharon Lathan Review here

*I am Legend, Richard Matheson

*The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

This list will be updated periodically (ie: when I remember)

We're twelve full weeks into the new year, I've read twenty-one books and reviewed twelve. March got a jump when I read three today while at the hospital.

EDIT: Waiting for shogunhb to come out of surgery. (surgery!) I'm not back in the hospital or anything.

Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

January
*Mistress of Mellyn, Victoria Holt Review here

*Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

*How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier Review here

*Zofloya, or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre

*Austenland, Shannon Hale Review here

*Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games Review here

*Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers, R. Sean Borgstrom

*The Myth of Mars and Venus, Deborah Cameron

February
*Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Louise Hawes

*Lament, Maggie Stiefvater Review here

*Gender Trouble, Judith Butler Review here

*The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Wittig Review Here

*The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare Review Here

March
*Vampire: Dark Ages, Jennifer Hartshorn, Ethan Skemp, Mark Rein, and Hagen Hassall

*Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates Review Here

*The Shadow Queen Review Here

This list will be updated periodically (ie: when I remember)

We're nine full weeks into the new year, I've read sixteen books and reviewed ten

Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

January
*Mistress of Mellyn, Victoria Holt Review here

*Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

*How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier Review here

*Zofloya, or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre

*Austenland, Shannon Hale Review here

*Grimm, Fantasy Flight Games Review here

*Nobilis: The Game of Sovereign Powers, R. Sean Borgstrom

*The Myth of Mars and Venus, Deborah Cameron

February
*Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand, Louise Hawes

*Lament, Maggie Stiefvater Review here

*Gender Trouble, Judith Butler Review here

*The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Wittig

This list will be updated periodically (ie: when I remember)

Words for the day: 5606. I'm now up to 9382 words. Not bad, when you consider I started the weekend with slightly over a thousand.

9382 / 50000 words. 19% done!

According to my excel spreadsheet, I am only 5621 words off-pace--which, of course, will go up to 7288 when I add tomorrow's next 1667 words in. Still, only 7300 words behind? I few more intense sessions like this and I should be golden.

Tomorrow, I've got class and then Star Wars (I think) so I probably won't be able to hammer out much more than the bare minimum to keep me in the game, but I should be able to pick up some more on Tuesday. And, of course, my office hours from now until the end of November will be devoted to writing. No more Civ for me!

This will probably be my last public Nano post for awhile--I know a lot of people on my f-list don't care. Still, with the amount of work I put into this story (okay, really, the last 24 hours), I'm justly proud of myself.

So there.

And I have no idea why the color bar isn't showing up on my nanocounter. I'm tired of messing around with it. Pretend 19% of the bar is filled, okay?

Quote for the Day

It was very easy to find; there were only three rooms on the second floor. Laura’s door was open, and Annalise could hear snatches of singing and laughter coming drifting down the hallway. Even alone, the little girl didn’t seem to lack for conversation.