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purplerabbit* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
You can usually tell what I am writing by the stack of non-fiction books beside me. I am half-way through the first draft of a novel involving a "were-wolf" character. I put that in quotes because he wouldn't describe himself as such since he his isn't diseased or cursed, but has a natural hereditary gift that allows him two shift between wolf and human. So I am reading about the biology and social behaviour of wolves to use as the basis of my understanding of both him and his pack.
Of course, sitting below that book is Disordered Personalities, 2nd Edition by David J. Robinson. Because I also write the villains as well as the heroes.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Antipathy to predators was further fueled by professional writers, who "leaned long ago that atrocities committed by gore-fed carnivores are among the most merchantable material for the magazine trade." As a result, he wrote in Our Wildlife Legacy, "Many people think ... the wolf doesn't live in the forest; he infests it. You don't just kill a predator; you execute him. You don't just hunt him for sport; you track him down in a crusade for moral reform."
The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
You can usually tell what I am writing by the stack of non-fiction books beside me. I am half-way through the first draft of a novel involving a "were-wolf" character. I put that in quotes because he wouldn't describe himself as such since he his isn't diseased or cursed, but has a natural hereditary gift that allows him two shift between wolf and human. So I am reading about the biology and social behaviour of wolves to use as the basis of my understanding of both him and his pack.
Of course, sitting below that book is Disordered Personalities, 2nd Edition by David J. Robinson. Because I also write the villains as well as the heroes.
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Date: 2008-09-30 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-30 09:22 pm (UTC)For the three of us that is: rabbits at therabbitwarren.org
For each of us, our first name and then the web address above.
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Date: 2008-09-30 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-03 09:37 pm (UTC)