The first paragraph I wrote today was…

Brenna stared, shocked. Mother Northwind laughed. “You look as though I’d said I like to eat kittens for breakfast and puppies for lunch.” Current word count: 35,563. However, I had an e-mail from my agent today which has me thinking I may put this book on hold for a while. The YA fantasy field is …

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Ah, sweet mystery of rice, at last I’ve found you!

From LiveScience.com: A Rice Krispie behaves like a piece of glass. If you hit it hard, it’ll break into a puzzle of a million pieces that, if you had the patience, you could put back together again. The high temperature at which the cereal’s cooked creates extremely strong bonds that hold the rice’s starch molecules …

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Komodo dragon gives birth!

But who’s the daddy–or is there one?

Powerful new antiobiotic found…

… in wallaby milk?

Early sub discovered

Read this fascinating account of the discovery of a very early submarine, the Sub Marine Explorere.

Photo of the Day: Light and Shade

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The first paragraph I wrote today…

Anton looked horrified. “You’re talking about human sacrifice!”

Photo of the Day: Art in Bloom

The table decorated by Beverley Bennett for this year’s Art in Bloom event at the MacKenzie Art Gallery here in Regina. Photo by guest photographer Margaret Anne Hodges, a.k.a. “my wife.”

The first paragraph I wrote today was…

“We won’t be needing your help,” Anton snarled at her. “We won’t be fixing the balloon after all.” Current word count: 34,728New words today: 889 (Slow but steady, and all that…that represents about 45 minutes of writing at the coffee shop this morning, which is about all the time I can spare on fiction right …

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Happy Birthday, Your Majesty!

Queen Elizabeth II accepts flowers from my daughter Alice during her visit to Saskatchewan last May. The Queen turns 80 today. Happy Birthday!

Star Trek lives!

There’s going to be an 11th Star Trek movie, which will follow the Starfleet Academy years of Kirk and Spock! Yay! Author and scriptwriter Lee Goldberg (who, unlike me, has a Variety subscription and can read the whole story) posts some details.

Photo of the Day: Door Jewel

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