I forgot

Over the holiday, Obi made his first music vid!

He did Bionicle: The Mask of Light to "The Greatest Adventure."

It's not on the site. We will however, be premiering it at Media West.

I'm prud of my boy.

A sense of humor so black it lapses into ultraviolet

Sunny/Dark: 9/10
drY/Gross: 4/10
Traditional/Offbeat: 3/10
Active/Passive: 3/10


You are a DYT--Dark Dry Traditional. This makes you a Cynic.

You're a realist. You'll take the piss out of anything, and do it with style and a skinny gray tie. You find humor in the mundane. When the mundane is thousands of working class families watching their retirement savings get snarfed by unpunished white collar bandits, that REALLY gets the larfs.

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I'm the one who, contemplating a breast lump, commented "Good thing I have a couple spare sets."

Taken from mamadeb

"Write what you know."

What aspiring fantasy or sci-fi writer hasn't heard that advice and cringed? We don't want to write about *us* - our lives are so boring and mundane. Or are they?

Everything you do that seems deathly dull is probably unknown and new, even alien, to someone somewhere else. Even if it's not, as a writer you should be able to make it seem that way to your readers.

Pick up the challenge. Take a slice of your normal, dull, boring daily routine and write it the way you would a fic. Keep it true but make it interesting. Write yourself in third person, the hero/ine of the newest chart breaking novel about a student/office worker/mother/net geek/whatever. Write what *you* know best.

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