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Facebooking Hawai’i

March 1, 2012 / 1 Comment / Natter, Travel / By nkjemisin

No time/energy to post in multiple places, so for the next few days I’ll be mostly on Facebook, where I’m liveblogging (livestatusing?) my research trip to the Big Island of Hawai’i. You can see photos from today’s hike across Kilauea. Tomorrow’s menu includes a helicopter tour of the active lava flows, and hopefully a visit to the Mauna Kea observatory (depending on whether my rental car can handle the drive). Friday is assorted debauchery with Kate Elliott, as we get up to whatever shenanigans two wild fantasy-writing women can get up to and stay legal. Saturday’s anything-goes day, and then […]

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And then it hits me.

February 28, 2012 / 3 Comments / On Writing, Travel / By nkjemisin

This is where I’m going: Off to Hawaii to research the coolest stuff ever. Back in a few days.

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Carving a New World

December 14, 2011 / 17 Comments / Natter, On Writing / By nkjemisin

Ah, the holidays. That lovely time when lists begin to dominate my life: holiday shopping lists, menus for family meals, packing lists for shipping and travel, eight million flavors of to do. I’m sure all of you reading this post, in any culture can relate. But there’s one list I’m working on right now that I suspect only the fellow writers among you will fully grok. Here’s what it would look like if I jotted it down on a sticky note: !!! Synop Characters Plot? Test Chapter 1 Test Chapter 2 Proof of Concept R&D (books and stuff) R&D (practical;

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