http://etoiline.com/ Star-bound musings and rumbles of a glory waiting in the wings; a motley collection of star warriors and stem cells, web design and wacky crushes. Home of the Moonstone Chronicles and Decadence, fantasy novels-in-progress. en-us etoiline@etoiline.com 2010-02-26T12:43:14-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2010/02/26/the_long_and_winding_road.php Image by tpeñalver via FlickrSometimes our dreams feel so far away, lost upon a crooked path that never seems to lead directly to anywhere we want to go. There are distractions and deviations along the way; when we finally get... 895@http://etoiline.com/ muses 2010-02-26T12:43:14-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2010/02/24/why_am_i_afraid.php Image by Photo Maiden via FlickrWow, I haven't posted anything in a long time. I haven't been inspired. I'm not really now, either, but I figured I should post at least once this year ;) Mike thinks I'm afraid of... 894@http://etoiline.com/ dreams 2010-02-24T13:43:25-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/11/29/fireworks.php music=A Dark Knight, The Dark Knight sdtk 892@http://etoiline.com/ writings 2009-11-29T23:27:37-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/10/30/why_i_nano.php I've participated in NaNoWriMo (aka National Novel Writing Month) since 2004, and I've been ML (Municipal Liaison, or the person ostensibly running the region) for three years. I'm hoping for my sixth win at the end of November, so that... 891@http://etoiline.com/ writings 2009-10-30T16:01:11-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/08/21/a_new_place.php It's hard to believe that I own a house. I don't really, not for another thirty years, but that I can claim I bought a house is a pretty strange prospect for me. I didn't think I'd buy a house... 890@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-08-21T09:53:26-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/07/22/dragons_and_princesses.php music=Farewell Suite, Free Willy sdtk 889@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-07-22T12:51:25-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/07/04/happy_fourth.php It's raining out there, but I'm sure we can manage to celebrate somehow... (via cakewrecks.)... 888@http://etoiline.com/ celebration 2009-07-04T10:49:49-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/06/30/keys.php I guess I'm officially an adult: I closed on a house yesterday. I have my very own address. Excuse me while I squee. --ZOMG keys!-- Ahem. It's small but well proportioned and just the right size for me. There is... 887@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-06-30T23:38:31-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/06/25/a_giant_fourth.php Overheard on the radio: A giant is taking questions like: Are you really a giant? Is your wife a giant too?. Then he gets this one: How does a giant celebrate the Fourth of July? He says, "I have to... 886@http://etoiline.com/ funny 2009-06-25T16:20:22-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/06/03/a_softball_haiku.php book=The Diamond Throne, David Eddings 885@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-06-03T09:47:08-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/06/02/good_fiction.php "The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as... 883@http://etoiline.com/ writings 2009-06-02T10:09:08-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/05/27/unfettered.php book=MythOS, Kelly McCullough 882@http://etoiline.com/ art 2009-05-27T01:51:40-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/05/24/something_learned.php book=Tales of Dark Fantasy, from Subterranean Press 881@http://etoiline.com/ writings 2009-05-24T23:47:55-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/05/15/six_1.php music=Streets Have No Name, Vanessa Carlton book=Middlemarch, George Eliot 880@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-05-15T17:34:18-06:00 http://etoiline.com/coronach/2009/04/27/the_importance_of_the_novel.php And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the... 879@http://etoiline.com/ reallife 2009-04-27T19:20:34-06:00