I’ve been asked to join in an international competition for the arts; including writing, thankfully!  Obviously they got my name off some list of wannabe writers somewhere and haven’t actually read my work.  That’s okay, though. I’m still gonna enter. I need the ego boost right now.

The Great Exo-Planet Search: Chile’s World’s Space-Observatory Headquarters

Score another for the Atacama Desert! This is where I was born.    Well, at least it was notable for my parents…

The lunar landscapes of Chile’s Atacama Desert, which stretches for
about 650 miles along the Pacific Ocean to the Peruvian Border, is
generally considered the driest place on earth, wedged between the rain
shadows of the Andes to the east and the coast ranges to the west,
while the cold Humboldt Current off the coast suppresses evaporation
from the ocean. There are places in the Atacama where there has been no
recorded or
observed rainfall in the 400+ years since the Spaniards first arrived.

Forget just who, might have been Tchernabelayo, who wrote a story set in the Atacama. Either he, or Liloo. 

I’m gearing up to work hard on my Bridgetown novels, Genesis and Survival.  If you’d like to do some reading, critiquing, or research to help me, PLEASE FEEL FREE! and MANY THANKS. 

Following are some images:

Don’t read if you’re thin-skinned… click on the image.

Fiction Writing with Storytellersunplugged | Twenty-Five Things About Being a Writer

Twenty-Five Things About Being a Writer
Posted by Richard Dansky
April 26, 2009

With apologies to Facebook and the memeage therein:

1-The world is under no obligation to tell you how great your writing is. In fact, it’s pretty much guaranteed that at least one person on there is going to hate it with the sort of hatred that inspires open-mouth frothing, Hulk-like spasms, and negative amazon.com reviews which may or may not be written in complete sentences. This is because we as a species are primates, and the only thing we can all actually agree on is the fact that oxygen is useful. If the thought of even one person not adoring your stuff makes you upset, then you need to consider another vocation. Either that, or never show your work to more than six people, all of whom owe you large sums of money.

Interesting research site. Click the image to go there.

Interesting place to look stuff up.

Earth Day 2009 (HQ)