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Brandon Sanderson / Mistborn Miniatures Now Available
« on: December 13, 2008, 03:13:46 AM »
Mistborn miniatures and figurines are now available for sale at Garden Ninja Painting Studio.

The minis come in four sculpts (Vin, Kelsier, a Steel Inquisitor, and a Koloss) and in three finishes (unpainted, hand painted, and finished pewter.)

We're very excited about these, and would love for you to check them out.

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Rants and Stuff / Engaged
« on: September 15, 2007, 11:34:30 PM »
I realized I never announced this here, but I'm engaged.  I'm getting married on December 28th in the Mt. Tympanogos temple. 

So yeah.

:) 

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Everything Else / Ways to Superdom
« on: November 18, 2006, 03:08:53 AM »
Okay, people.  I had an idea for a book today, but I need all you comic-bookish superhero knowing people to help me with a brain storm.  

What are ways that superheroes acquire their powers?  Here are the ones I've come up with.  


1)Bitten by insect
2)Born with them (obviously)
3)Medical experiment gone wrong
4)Toxic Waste


I need more, though.  

Any ideas?



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Rants and Stuff / For Those Who Care
« on: July 12, 2006, 03:33:26 PM »
Okay, I know I've been a bit absent lately.  I've been...distracted.  

But for those who care, the latest news in my life is that I'm not moving to California.  I was notified yesterday that I've been admitted to the Masters program in English at BYU, so I'll be staying in Orem.  It's not as good a program, but all things considered I think staying is going to be the best decision for me.  

So yay.

Mistborn Llamas, how do y'all feel about me staying in the group?  

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Rants and Stuff / The Update
« on: April 25, 2006, 04:01:22 AM »
I got into the MFA program in creative writing at San Jose State.  

And at this moment that is all I can say about that.  

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Rants and Stuff / Could we get some more drama, please?
« on: March 03, 2006, 08:33:44 PM »
So, I've applied to the English MA program at BYU for the third year running.  They've already rejected me twice, but I haven't felt right about leaving the area yet, and they have a good program for writing young adult fiction, so I keep applying.  

I wasn't expecting to hear from them until the end of the month, but I got an email yesterday saying that while they've decided not to admit me, they've selected me as their third alternate.  

They issue acceptance letters assuming that five people will turn them down.  For every person above those five who turns them down, one alternate will get in.  So essentially, eight out of thirty-five accepted applicants have to turn them down in order for me to be admitted.  

What's more, I won't get final word on whether or not I'm accepted until the END OF MAY.  I don't think ANYONE's letters have even been mailed yet.  Ouch.

I feel like I've dropped into one of my novels.  Or worse--one of someone else's novels, where everything is being set up for a dramatic climax, and I have no control over the outcome.  

Jeez.  At least it wasn't an outright rejection, although that might have been kinder than stringing me along for two months and *then* rejecting me.  

*Fish takes a deep breath

Oh, the drama.

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Movies and TV / Vintage Movie Bigotry
« on: March 03, 2006, 08:09:16 PM »
Okay, Parker.  You win.  You were right, and I was wrong.

So, Parker and I got into this argument on tuesday over old movies.  As a rule, I don't watch them.  I said I wanted to watch a scary movie, and Parker recommended several that I haven't seen that weren't rated R, but it turned out that they were all older movies.  Specifically, he wanted me to watch Wait Until Dark and Gaslight.  

I refused, because I don't like older movies, especially when they're supposed to be scary.  Psycho was not scary to me.  Neither was The Birds.  Interesting, yes.  Scary, no.  

So then Parker called me a bigot.  Maybe I deserved that.  Finally I agreed to take Wait Until Dark and watch it, and then post to tell him what I thought.

Okay--here you go, Parker.  

It was a scary movie.  And very well done.  And I loved it.  And from now on I will take your recommendations for movies--especially scary ones, even if they're old.  

And Audrey Hepburn is freaking awesome.  

That is all.



Oh, and does Orem have Gaslight on VHS?  
*Fish grins sheepishly

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Everything Else / Hey Tage!
« on: February 09, 2006, 02:38:27 AM »
Scream!

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Rants and Stuff / Fish Shows Off
« on: February 05, 2006, 07:13:16 PM »
I made a bunch of landscape quilts as gifts last year, but because I gave them away, several people who wanted to see the finished products didn't get to.  So here they are.  Look at me!  Look at me!   ;D

http://photobucket.com/albums/y45/RaisinFish/Quilts/

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Writing Group / Hating my project
« on: February 03, 2006, 06:24:51 PM »
So, I now officially hate the novel I'm working on.  I'm supposed to be writing this week, but I'm not because I don't want to write this book.  I think it's stupid and badly written and not worth finishing.  

I don't know if that's only my perspective, or if it really is just a bad book.  So here's my dillemma:

Do I finish, or not finish?

A part of me says--finish what you started.  I'm over halfway done--could finish it in a week or two if I put some serious writing time into it.  But I hate it.  So I don't want to.  So I haven't been doing it.  

Another part of me says--move on to something you care about.  I have this great idea for a vampire novel brewing, even though it's not quite ready yet.  

Or maybe I've just hit another non-writing spurt.  I hit those sometimes.  

So, opinions?  What do y'all think I should do?

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Site News / LTUE Get Together
« on: February 03, 2006, 03:30:37 AM »
So Stacer will be out here, staying with me, for LTUE...I believe it's the 15th-18th that she'll be in town.  How does everyone feel about a get together on Friday night?

JadeKnight--will Ari be in town?  Does that work for you guys?

We can't do Saturday night cause Stacer will be flying home.  What does everyone think?

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Rants and Stuff / Something I never wanted to see on TWG
« on: February 02, 2006, 04:45:55 PM »


Oh, the horror.

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Writing Group / Find and Replace is the Spawn of Satan
« on: January 11, 2006, 05:26:59 PM »
I was trying to replace the word "stable" with the word "barn " in several places on my current novel.  I accidentally hit enter at the wrong time and instead replaced the word "stable" with a single blank space.  Apparently the stupid thing made eleven replacements.  And I can't very well search for a blank space to find them, since those exist between ALL of my WORDS.  I'm going to hurt something, I swear.

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Rants and Stuff / Miserable things go here
« on: December 11, 2005, 04:48:37 PM »
I hate Sundays.

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Brandon Sanderson / Elantris a Bestseller?
« on: December 08, 2005, 04:39:27 PM »

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