December 2011
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I've read Abarat: Absolute Midnight (beware,...
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS …and daaaaaaamn. It’s a good book. Not a perfect one. No. Well, I might have thought so before I went on Goodreads and tried to write the review. Then I realised it has it’s mistakes. Well, lots of them. But I still love it. I love Zephario Carrion, the father, and even though I knew he’s not gonna live too long I wish he did and I love that...
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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On Insufferable Geniuses
(or genii?) I’ve been wondering. It seems that literature always had them. Usually detectives, you can bet that anything they do, anything they say will be Right - even if it doesn’t seem in the moment. Think Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. Personaly, I hate these characters. There are lots of people who like them, though. And I admit, there isn’t much reason to hate...
Dec 18th
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Marbling experiments, episode two
I still don’t know if it was a success or disaster. I bought alum. Unpowdered. I’m never, ever doing that again. I spent half an hour beating it down and I’m sure I’ll have well-desinfected lungs now from inhaling all that powder. I prepared around ten leaves of printer paper, then, because I still had some alum left, I mordanted eight leaves of another paper I had lying...
Dec 17th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Marbling experiments
As in, paper marbling on size. Experiment No.1, 12/8/2011: Yes, CMC-based glue is a good size replacement for carrageenan moss. Might be a bit thicker next time. Yes, a dishwashing liquid is a good surfactant replacement for ox gall, thanks goodness - but daaamn it’s so strong! Yes, writing inks float well even without a surfactant added. No, it won’t stick to unmordanted paper...
Dec 10th
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Lessons learned from NaNoWriMo
So, as you probably guessed, I didn’t finish my NaNoWriMo novel. I gave up somewhere in the middle of Week Two, with 7,877 words written. Yeah, it was a flop. Still, I’m glad I tried it. It was a perfect way to explore my writing and I learned a lot. Mainly: I can’t write without planning. I tried to write “by the seat of my pants” and I fell on my face, hard. I...
Dec 4th
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Dec 1st
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