musings, thoughts, and writings of Barbara W. Klaser


April 20, 2005

Squirrel love

This pair, found at Watermark, may be the cutest thing on the Internet at the moment.

— Barbara @ rudimentary 3:51 pm PST, 04/20/05

April 19, 2005

First draft

The first draft is you and your idea’s courtship. It’s the time when you try each other out, let things happen as they will. It flows organically out of your creative center, and you let it come, trusting that there’s a purpose to it, that all will work out in the end and you actually have something worth keeping. (more…)

— Barbara @ rudimentary 10:25 am PST, 04/19/05

April 13, 2005

Blue Jell-O

I’m a regular viewer of the Stargate series. Or is that serieses? Both of them, I mean—Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. I love the original Stargate SG-1 with Richard Dean Anderson, Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, and Michael Shanks. I watch the original motion picture with Kurt Russell every chance I get. I like the newer Atlantis series almost as well as the original, but it’s darker, with less humor. Or is it just those Wraith scare the hell out of me? (more…)

— Barbara @ rudimentary 11:35 am PST, 04/13/05

April 6, 2005

Rain, more rain and rainmakers

We’ve had a wet season in Southern California, and while the weather warmed up and turned dry again yesterday, after the previous day’s cold drizzle, we still aren’t sure if the rainy season is over, or whether this will turn out to be the third wettest, second wettest or the wettest year on record. The season ends June 30, and we have less than an inch of rainfall to go to beat the record, by most accounts. (more…)

— Barbara @ rudimentary 8:36 am PST, 04/06/05

March 26, 2005

Why I stop reading

I just stopped reading another book. Actually I stopped reading it days ago, and I just now realized I won’t start again. It’s been sitting beside my bed, and I’ve picked up several things since, neglecting this pretty blue cover I found so appealing in the store.
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— Barbara @ rudimentary 3:22 pm PST, 03/26/05

March 20, 2005

It’s Spring!

Just popping in to wish everyone a Happy Vernal Equinox.

— Barbara @ rudimentary 3:09 pm PST, 03/20/05

March 6, 2005

Finding Your Voice, by Les Edgerton

For the first few pages of Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing, I didn’t think I’d get much out of it. Les Edgerton didn’t sound like any writing teacher I’d ever listened to. By the time I’d finished reading Chapter One I felt more at home, and I knew I’d continue reading. Why? Les Edgerton understands voice, and he writes about it in a way I understand. What put me off at first? Surprise. I’m not used to finding such a friendly voice in a book on writing. (more…)

— Barbara @ rudimentary 7:16 pm PST, 03/06/05

March 1, 2005

Lost in my computer

My biggest pet peeve about writing on a computer is how I get lost in the stream of prose. This doesn’t happen with a stack of paper. At least I don’t think it did, but I’ve been writing on a computer for so many years it’s possible my memory of typewriter writing is faulty. I remember revisions involved a lot more retyping back then. I wouldn’t want to return to that, but eventually, in fact a few times in the course of writing a book, I reach a point where I must print and read my work on real paper, in order to get my bearings.
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— Barbara @ rudimentary 1:46 pm PST, 03/01/05

February 27, 2005

Lace shawl knitting update

I took the Fir Cone Square Shawl, mentioned in A Knitter’s Journey and Morning Knitting, off the circular needle last night. I shifted all the live stitches onto waste yarn, so it spreads out into a large square rather than the odd-looking bag shape it made while knitting in the round.
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— Barbara @ rudimentary 11:35 am PST, 02/27/05

February 24, 2005

Rain-but where’s the cloud?

I spent the last five minutes trying to figure out which cloud this afternoon sprinkle is coming from. The sky’s been blue all day, the sun shining. For the last ten minutes we’ve had a steady sprinkle, and there’s no cloud directly above us. Rain slants down from a clear patch of blue, with no discernible source. I’m sure it’s blowing down from one of the clouds that hover at the fringes of the sky.

UPDATE 2 Hrs Later
Found the clouds, thunder, lightning, and a lot more rain!

— Barbara @ rudimentary 4:31 pm PST, 02/24/05


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