All Posts Tagged With: "anything goes sundays"

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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 75

Anything Goes Sundays:
Imagine an alternate Playing For Keeps (released August 25! ) universe where there are no heroes, just people with really lame superpowers. As the most powerful people in town, they form factions/gangs. The city falls into a somewhat lame, yet terrifying, gang-driven world.
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily blog post featuring [...]

13Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie Returns! - Day 68

Anything Goes Sundays:
Some of my favorite ideas have come from my inability to type. There’s the whole “superherpes” thing that came up time and again during the writing of Playing For Keeps, as “p” and “o” are right next to each other. I was chatting with someone about queries the other day and accidentally typed [...]

6Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 61

Anything goes Sundays:
Jenny is a closeted geek. She works in a PR firm, has perfectly styled hair, and works out in a gym every other day. Everyone thinks she’s completely normal, except that she considers Walter Mitty a saint in her world. She works out with the assurance that some day she will be called [...]

22Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 55

From my buddy Ryn-
I recently read The World Without Us and found this passage from p. 270 really interesting. (Jon Lomberg is the person who designed and oversaw the information about humans that was on the Voyager spacecraft in the 70s.)
Around 5 billion years from now, give or take, the sun will expand into a [...]

15Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 48

Anything goes Sundays
I keep thinking that once the revolution comes and the dystopia is here, the world will be a lot more animalistic. Sure, there will be violence when someone cuts you off in traffic, but think about the other times you feel insane rage. When you can’t find your favorite pair of shoes. When [...]

8Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 41

Anything Goes Sundays
You know how the “hooker with a heart of gold” thing has been overdone? It’s such a surprise! She’s a hooker, a lady of the night, a slut, but she collects precious moments figurines and calls her grandmother on her birthday! She’s a real person!
Last night I was watching an episode of CSI [...]

1Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 34

Anything goes Sundays:
This past weekend at Balticon made me think a lot about my writing, my range, etc. Not going anywhere with this, yet, just sayin.
But I thought a lot on the drive home about the unreliable narrator, and started thinking about a girl who convinces herself she’s a mythical creature. Not on a mentally [...]

25May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 27 - Pie Week!

My friend Joe said I should do a pie-centered week on NfP, and I’m all for pie. So this post starts PIE WEEK.
Anything goes Sundays:
I’m sure someone in economics can explain it if you need the background - and I’m not asking you to explain it to me - but I’ve never really understood why [...]

18May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 20

Anything goes Sundays
So on the ride home I was thinking about the plotlines, mainly thinking about the whole hide-the-important-thing-inside-a-living-person plotline. And that’s been done. it’s tired.
But what if we twist it? What if we have a king who needs to hide something. Doesn’t matter what. it’s a Macguffin. We’ll worry about that later. But [...]

11May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued