Journal Entry
Things I’ve looked up in the last 24 hours
Things I’ve researched in the last 24 hours:
Interior shots of the Zepellin NT
Synonyms for the word large
The thousand most common last names in the US today
Various endangered bird species
Pictures of the largest living horse alive today
Various poison speeds and reactions
Northwest Passage pictures (help reframe my old notes) and history
US freight rail history
I love being a writer.
Filed under the topic Journal on April 8th 2010 at 4:35 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.
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1. Sarah on Apr 8th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
One horse who can make that claim is Big Jake; He’ll be at the Midwest Horse Fair, which is–serendipitously!–in Madison the same weekend as Odyssey Con. If you wanted to make a field-trip, I’d be happy to provide transportation.
2. Alexandra Wolfe on Apr 8th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Given those topics, it sounds like quite an intriguing novel you’re thinking of writing there!
3. Alex J. Kane on Apr 28th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I smell… Steampunk. I’ve got the seed of an idea for a steampunk story that I’m sort of tinkering with while I write my current novelette.