tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post3820671823203413104..comments2023-04-01T03:54:48.460-04:00Comments on Clothdragon: I Write, She Writes, We all WritesClothDragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07542830590515695754noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-82832486249852382012010-09-16T08:16:26.346-04:002010-09-16T08:16:26.346-04:00Unfortunately, blog writing doesn't count as p...Unfortunately, blog writing doesn't count as productive when I'm not writing anything else. We've hit the point where, in the deal I made with Barbara, I'm supposed to have decided on stories, but I still haven't.ClothDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07542830590515695754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-45014613814287356742010-09-16T04:17:12.960-04:002010-09-16T04:17:12.960-04:00It must be because I know you that I think it seem...It must be because I know you that I think it seems obvious you are a writer. However, I have to say, you have quite a lot to write about, even if it's not "writing" related. I think you have written at least a few posts here about different authors, books, characters, and whatnot. Isn't that what writers/authors do? Is the teacher saying you need a page specifically for that kind of post maybe? If I could only be as productive as you. It's one of the reasons my web site and blog page are in limbo . Maybe one of these days inspiration will come to me. :)LoriDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236198254073246550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-69331128132516758392010-09-14T20:15:39.278-04:002010-09-14T20:15:39.278-04:00I'm sure I drove through at least one of them ...I'm sure I drove through at least one of them on I-10 on my way to El Paso before. I remember wide spans of terrifying traffic where occasionally the lanes weren't even marked -- like Atlanta. Oh, and concrete lane dividers that looked close enough for the big trucks to scrape along both sides -- oh, and signs that the big truck speed limits were strictly enforced and much lower than for the cars.<br /><br />Gainesville has a sprawl too. Downtown is thick with businesses and the bars and hangout spots, but our county ordinances have limited the number of stories. Around that, it gets scattered. Residential and apartments clump up around the University and restaurants are scattered, but there's restaurant row. <br /><br />When the home prices sky-rocketed a few years ago, we spread even further as people moved into nearby towns for cheaper property and businesses followed them. Lots of sprawl. And we have a lot of trees still, and a few real wild areas in town so it would take a lot of change to make it look like big city.ClothDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07542830590515695754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-68221925863304148082010-09-14T19:11:22.705-04:002010-09-14T19:11:22.705-04:00Right now I live in College Station, which is medi...Right now I live in College Station, which is medium-sized, but I've lived in both Dallas and Houston, which are huge. But unlike Manhattan, they're huge over a huge area, very little giant skyscrapers packed together. We call it the urban sprawl.Barbara Ann Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751427987081847906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-50315183671037369102010-09-14T16:26:58.967-04:002010-09-14T16:26:58.967-04:00I think Urban Fantasy is just easier to say than C...I think Urban Fantasy is just easier to say than Contemporary Fantasy. Hope so, because Gainesville, where I live, is way smaller than somewhere like Chicago. I grew up rurally, went to college here, and otherwise spent time on army bases as a AR enlisted. The four days I spent in Chicago doesn't give me enough to write big city so while I can imagine the other, my stories are probably closer to suburban.<br /><br />I know you're in Texas. One of the big cities or the wide broad rest of it? <br /><br />--Oh, thinking about that side of the country, the book I just finished (Storm Born, Rachel Caine) was in Arizona so had similar scenery to Texas and I don't remember it having much in the way of city scenes. And I think it's called Urban Fantasy too.ClothDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07542830590515695754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752265769980657739.post-33180738532210968332010-09-14T13:32:13.713-04:002010-09-14T13:32:13.713-04:00Maybe writing opinions? Less of a how-to and more ...Maybe writing opinions? Less of a how-to and more of a what I like to see and what bothers me? Such things prompt discussion. As for more urban fantasy, you can talk about not only what urban fantasy authors you like to read but what it is about urban fantasy you like, what you hate to see, and what you feel should or should not be tagged urban fantasy. I've always been curious about fantasy that takes place in suburbia. Is that suburban fantasy? Is there such an animal or does that get lumped under urban as well? <br />I guess you could photoshop the image of you with the dragon so that it's in a dark alley. ^_^Barbara Ann Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751427987081847906noreply@blogger.com