Xandra Gregory

The Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns

Making Progress Versus Making a Mess

Xandra | January 29, 2010

I confess that I am one of those people that literally loathes schedules. My mother is sort of a martinet when it comes to scheduling, and bless her heart for it, ran my household with an iron alarm clock while I was growing up. As a result, I decided to reinvent the wheel when I [...]

Savvy?

Xandra | January 29, 2010

Yeah, you knew the pic was coming with a title like that.  But Jack Sparrow has a point, yanno?  Any pirate worth his salt has to be able to taste which way the wind is blowing.  The same goes for writers. The minute you press “Publish” on your first blog post, or the minute you [...]

Vox Humana, Vox Scriptor

Xandra | January 22, 2010

Random pages on Wikipedia are dangerous things.  My latest random visit took me to the entry on the Vox Humana (I was actually trying to remember the latin quote “Vox populi, vox Dei” – the voice of the people is the voice of God, but I digress).  Turns out the Vox Humana is actually a [...]

Something To Say

Xandra | January 22, 2010

Every author writes because he or she has something to say to the world.  That message may be as small as “chocolate birthday cake is the world’s most perfect food” or as large as “can’t we all just get along…to survive the zombie apocalypse” but it’s that message that keeps us going through recalcitrant characters, [...]

Accumulation

Xandra | January 15, 2010

It snowed last week.  A wonderful, white blizzard of unique and precious snowflakes and a delicious kind of cold that only comes with snow.  And I didn’t write, because I have small children who like snowballs.   But I did think a lot about accumulation, especially as I was pushing it off the front porch. [...]

Continuing Resolutions

Xandra | January 9, 2010

New Year’s Resolutions are a crapshoot.  Everybody’s enthusiastic in January, until about the 18th hits and the post-holiday boredom sets in.  That’s about the time the exercise machine starts becoming a clothes hanger, the shiny toys have run out of batteries/been stepped on/the teeny-tiny little pieces have been vacuumed up, and the leftovers have all [...]

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