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Marco still lives at home with his mother, but that does not stop him from entering a world of adventure complete with larger than life creatures. Along his journey, he comes across a fighting Lion named Leo and a really aggressive chicken. It almost makes sense that he never leaves …
We finally did it! We got to 300 Quackcasts! We've been doing these non-stop for SIX years! Wow… That's pretty incredible. We couldn't think of anything clever do do so we had another DD electronic meetup. The 3rd DD meetup on the 3rd of December on …
It was early morning on a Thursday, and I had just prepped the classroom for the day before I headed outside to wait for the children to line up after the bell. I was knitting a scarf when a little girl named Angeline walked up to me and started up …
It’s the ultimate horror. You are trapped with your very own demons. You cannot escape- you will not be excused. You will need to look at them, as they look back at you, and do a reckoning.
At least until dessert.
In my opinion, in all creative writing/art mediums, the …
The 3rd DD meetup is NOW, well in only about 3 hours from now. (11am EST, that's New York time) We'll be using Google hangouts. Bellow are some instructions on how to do that
How to use google hangouts: First send your google email address (may work with others) to …
I nearly forgot about Secret Santa this year! Fortunately the lovely Niccea is more on top of things than I am, and has kindly organized it in my stead.
Secret Santa is always one of my favourite community projects - it's a lovely way to spread Christmas cheer and get …
From EssayBee, creator of Fusion comes Dude in distress.
Clark Peters is your average loser who can't get a date and is teased by his so called friends, things change one fateful night when he is caught in the middle of a superhero battle between Femme Fantastic and Little Boy …
In Quackcast 299 we expand on an idea from Tantz's Saturday newspost about inserting your personality into your characters when you write them. But not only that, we chat about how a work of fiction by a writer can be like a darkly faceted diamond with …
I was not anticipating the long lines and large crowds for Black Friday this year, but my shopping haul from this past weekend was delightfully fruitful. I decided it was time for a "Treat. Yo. Self." spending spree (Tom Haverford-style from Parks and Recreation).
I came across a little blurb the other day about Mary Sues, and fanfiction, and how the writer of a fanfiction is basically writing a fantasy, inserting themselves as the character at the center of attention, immaculate, glittering and perfect. Basically everything you want to smack into a different galaxy, …
In my newspost last week about the “No Hugging, No Learning” mantra, I mentioned that I was basing a throwaway character – a loveable misanthrope – on a real-life friend of mine. It’s something I’m tempted to do fairly frequently; I spend most of my time in an academic environment, …