Jun. 9th, 2009

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I'm reading Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, and loving it. I love the main character, she's so unique. Rather than the daydreaming, wishful little girl, she's a very realistic little girl, and a practiced liar.

Now that I'm done the second book, I see what they were talking about with the religious controversy. It's about as religiously controversial as you can get. I can't really think of what you could do that would be more religiousl controversial, as far as christianity goes, anyway. Unbelievable how much of that didn't make it into the movie.

And as I got to the last few chapters on the bus today, one of my favourite characters died. Died well and poignantly, and I actually cried and had to put the book down for a few hours.
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new printer - check
networked to router - check
printed copies of Kharduev an Dove - check
copies put in my writing folder so I don't forget them - check
folder put in my bag to take it to portage for my critiquing meeting - ........????????

Ugh. I can't believe I forgot that. But it's all on google docs, so it was an easy matter to print out extra copies when I got to portage.

Research

Jun. 9th, 2009 09:56 pm
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I got to do research for my WIP today :D Normally research annoys me, because it's such a bother having to actually know what you're talking about when you're writing. :P

But this was fun research. I was over at my old neighbor's house across from my dad's place - this is the one that made me a tomboy, teaching me all kinds of boyscout type stuff when I was little. And I know he knows guns, so I figured I'd pick his brain about flintlocks, and he says, "Would you like to fire one?"

Would I? Rhetorical question. So he pulls out his 16 guage flintlock pirate pistol and a can of black powder and we turned his garage into a firing range. Only using a reduced load, so it wouldn't go through the wall, and the kick was only a bit less than half of what a full charge would be, but I fire a chunk of wood and a lead ball into the back wall. Smelled the burnt powder, singed my armhairs. Got to load it, so I have a much clearer idea of how to load it and how long it takes and the sort of difficulties you can have, the pause between squeezing the trigger, the flash from the pan, then about two seconds before the gun actually fires, and the flash when it fires just envelops your hand. I don't think Maddie could have rammed the ball down herself, she wouldn't be strong enough - I'm glad I wrote it that Etienne loaded it for her.

It was awesome fun and a rush.

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