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What D&D Character am I?

2013-04-28T03:01:29Z

Shoot. Who did I gack this from?

I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Druid/Wizard (3rd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:

Strength-11

Dexterity-12

Constitution-11

Intelligence-15

Wisdom-12

Charisma-13
( Details for the uber geeky )

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

In other news, I have washed a pan. Slowly this place is getting cleaned up, slowly.

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When I was 17, it was a beautiful year....

2013-04-19T07:36:23Z

lauramcewan gave me "17."

When I was 17, I was in 11th grade.

( That year I went to Germany as an exchange student for two and a half months, danced with a soldier in a German disco... )

None of this is covered in the questions.

I lived... in Union Lake, Michigan, also known as paradise. We lived 50 feet from the water and wore bathing suits all summer. My brother and I drove an hour, each way, to attend the Waldorf school in downtown Detroit.

I drove... nothing. My parents wanted me to get my license so they could be spared the two hour per day drive in rush hour traffic. I refused. My brother did get his license, and thought I'd relent and share the driving. I slept on the way instead.

I was in a relationship with... Oh, who was it then? I had a secret fling with Judd, the class "nice guy" who was desperate to be anything but, then later Lars, a German exchange student who didn't speak English but liked to climb. He was vulnerable, unhappy, and had a beautiful chest. (I had priorities.)

I feared... the cool kids who picked on me, and Ian, he of the crush-or-maybe-he-was-a-gay-misogynist. High school sucks.

I worked... at, oh God, other than tutoring clarinet, I think I worked at McDonald's over the summer, and then as a cashier at a drugstore.

I wanted to be... in New York city with a apartment that had nothing but wood floors (for the acoustics) and a piano, working quietly in an art museum. My art teacher thought I had a good shot at a scholarship at the all-scholarship school, Pratt.

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Book meme: yes, giving in.

2012-01-12T11:34:42Z

I've been resisting this one:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Intentions and aims: You will achieve them.
(It's a divination manual.)

The other book is likely to be weirder:

From eastern Tibet I received word of a man who had a copy of the medium-length sadana.
(Yep.)

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I'm borrrrrred, and feel like kicking back ... and writing fic.

2011-09-08T07:55:13Z

I'm borrrrrred, and feel like kicking back ... and writing fic.

Give me one of my own stories, and a time at some point after the end of the story or before the story started, and I'll write you at least 100 words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story begins or ten years in the future.

SGA preferred. First come, first serve. :) Those who reply tonight or before noon eastern time tomorrow are most likely to get a ficlet.

I made homemade chocolate whipped cream (with maple syrup) to dip my raspberries in. And, ah, I just discovered I ate the all the whipped cream without touching a single raspberry.

Raspberry, anyone?

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Meme gakked from Boxofdelights

2011-04-26T17:33:07Z

Quite fun. Gakked from boxofdelights:

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does).

If you are not from the North, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Southerner who hates Southern accents and tries really hard to "talk right"; or
(b) A New Yorker or New Jerseyan who doesn't have the full accent

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

As a matter of fact, I am from the Great Lakes region.

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Gakked from Auburn.

2011-04-25T05:30:47Z

I'm late to the party, but these days, that's a given. Snagged from Auburn:

Ask me a question about one of my stories or my approach to writing in general. It can be absolutely anything in any fic/general writing experience and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.

Of course, it's been so long, folks have probably forgotten that I've ever written anything, lol.

Lately I've been hearing about:

Out Of Bounds
Dragonlord
Collisions
All Dressed Up And...
Tanlines and Dogtags
Breeding Ground
No More Quasi-Religious Alien Sex Rituals
Beg Me For It

See? I used to be a fanfic writer. ;)

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Don't Use "I Write Like" meme

2010-07-17T04:45:05Z

From mecurtin:

Don't use I Write Like

Jim McDonald did some digging into that "I Write Like" meme, and what he found isn't pretty.

I looked at the rest of the text on the results page:

Great job! Do you want to get your book published?

“I have personally read through thousands of book proposals in my career as a publisher and agent. I know what these professionals are looking for—and what they are not looking for.”
— Michael Hyatt, Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers.

That little bit includes two links, both to the same page: http://michaelhyatt.com/products/ebook-writing-a-winning-book-proposal

Yep, it’s SEO. And they’re using social engineering to get those links wide-spread and high in the Google stats. Helpful little cut-n-paste code to put in your blog!

But wait! There’s more!

Go over to that advertised page, and you’ll find a pair of $19.97 e-books by the above-said and afore-mentioned Michael Hyatt. These books promise to tell you such insider secrets as how to avoid the three items you should NEVER include in a fiction book proposal. Wow, I can’t wait to find out.

So, who’s Michael Hyatt, and what is Thomas Nelson?

Basically, a former legitimate Christian publisher, now a vanity press.

This “I Write Like” site isn’t remotely legitimate. No, they aren’t trying; or, anyway, they aren’t trying to analyze writing samples: They’re trying to lure newbie authors to the rocks and shoals of vanity publication.

I will also note that there's a "sign up for our awesome newsletter!" box on the side, which says that by doing so you can download FREE a "classic" book on writing by Charles Raymond Barrett -- a book which is, it *doesn't* tell you, also available at Project Gutenberg because it's from 1898.

I *strongly* recommend removing any links and code from "I Write Like" that may be in your posts.

Boost the signal.

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Meme, which is spelled me-me: writing styles.

2010-07-13T05:45:22Z

G-nabbed from wickedwords:

Code redacted: "I Write Like" meme boosts hits to a sleazy vanity press. More here: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012502.html

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Seriously? I don't see that. The writing sample was from Out Of Bounds.

But this was amusing. This is from a Harry Potter fic where I very consciously imitated J. K. Rowling.

Code redacted: "I Write Like" meme boosts hits to a sleazy vanity press. More here: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012502.html

The writing sample was Primer to the Dark Arts.

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Meme: Dating style

2010-01-10T01:17:12Z

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