http://blog.tkmarnell.comThe pop-infused house for my sardonic wit and nominal sentences.Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:31 -0400http://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=179The Undomestic Goddess, which has four and a half stars on Amazon...]]>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:30:15 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=178Sat, 11 May 2013 16:32:56 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=177Kagemusha as zippy as I can, I've been scouring the shelves for popular comedic novels. As I mentioned in my post bemoaning the modern predilection for Writing Novels Like Screenplays, nobody likes to write comedy...]]>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:25:30 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=176Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:21:04 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=175Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:48:02 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=173Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=174Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:58:19 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=172Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:02:08 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=166Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:59:13 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=171sic] better fit the needs of the position," I shot back a disgruntled reply that the person they hired over me better have had more than one...]]>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:51:13 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=169Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:29:17 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=168Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:51:05 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=167How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran, which apparently had her "weeping with laughter...]]>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:53:53 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=165wah...]]>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:51:57 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=164Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:42:09 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=161Conflict & Suspense on the recommendation of Lynn Viehl, the author of Paperback Writer. It's a short book, but it's jam-packed with advice that makes you stop and think...]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:24:58 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=159Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:04:28 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=160House at least a hundred times. In it was a clip of the hospital administrator giving House a cold, hard truth: "Two sick babies is very sad, but it does not prove an epidemic...]]>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:23:48 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=158Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:02:57 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=155Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:27:28 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=157Ghost Hunt. The series consisted of twelve volumes of 100 pages each, or about 1200 pages. It took me 10-12 hours to read it from front to back, skipping all the introductory pages and footnotes explaining Japanese honorifics, customs, mythology, etc...]]>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:22:58 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=156Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:31:07 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=154Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:40:15 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=152I was a student we had classes until Wednesday. I would be looking forward to a vacation too, but I get paid by the hour, and I need my 40 hours per pay period...]]>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:09:38 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=151Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:28:44 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=150Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:10:45 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=149Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:26:14 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=144Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:43:51 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=147The Chaperone dashed my hopes of becoming an instant smash by only selling two copies this weekend...]]>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:04:45 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=146Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:13:55 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=145too cute. My sentiments exactly, Eleanor. My sentiments exactly.]]>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:01:14 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=143The Casual Vacancy. I say "long-awaited," but what I mean is "long-dreaded." Would she fumble the ball? Would she dash our hopes for the next great literary achievement, the application of her famous creative wit to the complex and contradictory world of adults...]]>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:34:15 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=142The Chaperone. Or "Madeleine Dupont" finished "her" erotic novella...because as far as the print record is concerned, T. K...]]>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:10:42 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=141Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:19:41 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=140Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:30:34 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=138Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:41:40 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=139Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:05:40 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=136Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:51:09 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=1351. I've killed CAPTCHA on my comment form. If you tried to use it recently, but it constantly spit out an error telling you your answer was incorrect, that was my fault. When I converted the scripts that pull post information from my databases to MySQLi, I forgot that a small snippet of the comment processor needed to be adjusted as well...]]>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:46:08 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=134Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:21:14 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=132Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:14:36 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=133Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:13:44 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=131Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:37:19 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=130own bad smutty books...]]>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:19:38 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=129Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:07:04 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=128Writer Unboxed on antiheroes. I was excited to read about the topic, but disappointed in the execution. The author gave a very narrow definition of antiheroes, and he seemed to imply that there's only one "proper" kind: the kind that's in a tough situation with no clear "right answer," who believes he's doing what needs to be done...]]>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:21:30 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=127Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:23:02 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=126Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:05:03 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=124Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:26:58 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=125Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:59:11 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=123Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:10:54 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=122Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:46:38 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=121Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:49:08 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=119Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:52:51 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=112Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:55:30 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=118Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:42:00 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=117Bubbles Pop to a blogger for a review. Yeah, I know, that book is dead, but I'm still using it as a guinea pig for marketing tactics. Anyway, I received a reply today that she liked the voice and humor, but she got bored with the plot halfway through, so she declined to review it...]]>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:17:34 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=116Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:38:03 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=115Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:25:52 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=114Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:08:34 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=113Twilight ripoff. The author said as much in her interview about the book on the product page, though I didn't notice it was a vampire trilogy until I had already downloaded it...]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:31:32 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=110Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:26:14 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=109Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:11:37 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=108Daily Life in Victorian England, submerging myself in the details of the period and reevaluating my first draft for any historical inaccuracies...]]>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:51:31 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=107Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:50:06 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=106at least one week. As this blog is hosted independently and floats somewhere outside of the blogosphere, it doesn't count. But reading blogs, commenting, and going out of my way to engage with shadowy figures in parts unknown is off-limits...]]>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:14:14 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=105Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:00:34 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=104all of my days) but my heart just hasn't been in it. Yes, yes, flimsy excuses—writing is work, after all...]]>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:55:56 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=103Bubbles Pop from the dark recesses of one million plus rankings right before I was liberated from the clutches of KDP Select...]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:02:20 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=102Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:27:30 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=101Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:26:13 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=100Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:03:53 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=99Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:22:59 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=98literary smut. The sort of story that I can dash off quickly and be absolutely certain that it pushes no boundaries, makes no one think, and will be entirely forgotten within the hour...]]>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:11:51 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=97Mon, 28 May 2012 05:47:10 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=96Sun, 27 May 2012 14:56:03 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=95Sat, 26 May 2012 05:31:13 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=94Fri, 25 May 2012 03:00:39 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=93Wed, 23 May 2012 13:29:46 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=92The Sound and the Fury. I'm afraid that a lot of the decisions I make are motivated by fear...]]>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:14:05 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=91obsessed with this one really weird trend.... So the 411 is, for the past couple of years, I've noticed that journalists have started writing articles in professional publications like they're personal diary entries...]]>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:18 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=88Fri, 11 May 2012 18:34:38 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=87Fri, 11 May 2012 04:34:08 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=86Castle, and joined the collective voice of millions of other Americans saying, "Squee! Rick and Kate together at last!" I probably would have "squeed" louder if I hadn't been waiting for it for, oh, the past four years...]]>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:41:23 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=85Tue, 08 May 2012 18:55:01 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=84Bubbles Pop!]]>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:32:55 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=83wrote today. Shocking, right? I haven't written anything substantial in about a week. Not sure where my time went, but it certainly wasn't into making those progress bars go up. I think I spent it on limericks, putting together job applications, updating my resume and portfolio, and celebrating the end of the school semester with Sweetie by splurging $13...]]>Sun, 06 May 2012 23:54:13 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=81Sat, 05 May 2012 11:28:06 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=80Thu, 03 May 2012 09:32:54 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=79Wed, 02 May 2012 15:40:39 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=78Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:13:59 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=76Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:37:36 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=75terrible at coming up with titles. Other people seem to be able to whip out a fragment of Shakespeare or some obscure poetry at will; I have to wait until I've finished the book and hand it to Sweetie, and then hash it out for hours until we come up with something tolerable...]]>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:25:55 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=74Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:13:33 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=73Bubbles Pop to be pithier and bouncier. I have the hunch that people were tiring halfway through the first paragraph of the synopsis and never made it to the "Buy" button...]]>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:51:40 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=72Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:32:28 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=71Bubbles Pop from oblivion. I added an "About the Author" snippet to the Amazon records to make me look like a nice, normal person (lulz), and I put keywords and tags all over it so that any moms looking for a "Cinderella" pillowcase for their five-year-old daughters will stumble across my profanity-laden novel instead...]]>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:41:59 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=70Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:26:43 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=69actual business did not take years of sacrifice and suffering, only to end in bankruptcy...]]>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:14:40 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=68Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:03:04 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=67three WIPs going at once. WIP-A is a modern politically charged retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" (like Bubbles Pop but in the third person, with bankers and Marxists)...]]>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:45:27 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=66Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:22:38 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=65Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:14:44 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=64en masse until after World War I...]]>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:47:23 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=63Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:12:12 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=62Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:19:50 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=61Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:13:02 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=60Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:48:08 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=59Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:02:50 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=57Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:55:50 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=56Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:13:46 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=55Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:01:01 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=54Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:51:41 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=53Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:44:57 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=52Stacks. I eventually stopped because drawing the strips was absurdly time consuming, and I was busy with other things. Well, now I'm not so busy, but I'm not a librarian-in-training anymore...]]>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:12:26 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=50Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:39:36 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=49Bubbles Pop up as a giveaway on LibraryThing, I had thirty-one members signed up to "win" one of 100 copies. More signed up at a rate of two or three per day, so I figured I'd reach fiftyish by the time the giveaway ended on the 31st, and everyone who signed up would receive a copy...]]>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:12:52 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=48Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:17:11 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=47Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:14:10 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=46Bubbles Pop and its cover (note to self: next time, look at the image in CMYK colors first so we don't have these unexpected screen-to-ink discrepancies)...]]>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:42:33 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=45Bubbles Pop makes its merry way to my apartment (and by "final proof" I mean "the last proof I'm going to order, but I'm still going to find stuff to change at the last second), I have torn myself away from the lure of promotion to work on my next novel, or, as Meljean Brook puts it, "write a damn book...]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:32:31 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=44Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:53:05 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=43Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:50:38 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=42Bubbles Pop arrived in the mail today. The UPS guy threw open the screen door, pounded thrice on the wood, dropped the box and bolted back to the safety of his nice, warm truck...]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:39:27 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=41Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:24:15 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=40Bubbles Pop to Kindle and CreateSpace in the past couple of days. Each time I pore over it with a fine-toothed comb and approve the submission, just to find another flaw in a couple of hours...]]>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:23 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=38ton of paper...]]>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:06:21 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=37Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:12:12 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=35Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:36:58 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=34Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:07:52 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=33Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:29:04 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=32Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:40:17 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=31gadgets...]]>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:09:16 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=29Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:26:31 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=28Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:58:50 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=27Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:35:30 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=26Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:10:20 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=25Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:35:15 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=24hate it when writers talk about "tapping into the creative genius," "honing my craft," or related platitudes recited with a smug little smile that all mean, "We are more special than everyone else...]]>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:53:11 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=23Poirot adaptations, and another British one that looked promising but I could figure out the pattern by the second episode...]]>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:19:28 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=22Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:44:18 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=21Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:24:51 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=20you can't pay for your house, that's your problem...]]>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:02:38 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=19Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:00:30 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=18Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:00:16 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=17Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:42:40 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=16Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:28:19 -0500blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=15Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:09:54 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=14do mind rejection when I'm not even given half a chance. The deadline to submit applications to this position was last Thursday, October 27th...]]>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:13:17 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=13over Halloween. And the pertinent point is really that tomorrow is the first day of November...]]>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:31:11 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=12Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:53:22 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=11writing. I'm writing about information seeking; I'm writing about cyborgs; I'm writing about website architecture...]]>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:34:41 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=10easy semester! In the grand scheme of things, the week really wasn't that bad...]]>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:04:08 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=8Cinderella for teens and early twenty-somethings. (No stealing the idea; it's such an original one). I'm writing from multiple points of view and weaving three different stories together, each with its own tone and subplots that have to fit neatly into the others, so it's a lot to keep track of and pretty tiring work...]]>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:07:34 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=7Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:30:38 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=6Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:28:02 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=5Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:46:52 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=4Anna Karenina style...]]>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=3Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:07:56 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=2Novel Writing for Dummies--will try to tell you exactly what to write and what you can't...]]>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:01:55 -0400blog.tkmarnell.comhttp://blog.tkmarnell.com/?pid=1imperative that your significant other understand that multi-value columns are much worse than a couple of JOIN statements. 2) You hear "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes on the radio many times, and it isn't until the twentieth or so that you realize they're not singing: My heart's a stereoIt beats for you, so listen closeHear my thoughts in every node...]]>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:48:21 -0400blog.tkmarnell.com