Silence
Sorry about the silence of the last week. I did something very bizarre: I went on holiday. A real holiday with no laptop and no internet access. Totally off the grid! Let me report that five days of no internet is bliss! I plan to do it more often.
In other news Diana Peterfreund got me addicted to free rice. Improve your vocab while being virtuous!
Also Maureen Johnson is stirring revolution on Amazon. Go, Maureen!
Hope your holidays are going as well as mine. Normal blogging will resume soon. Honest.
Posted by Justine at 12:50, 28 December 2007 under Admin, Bloggery | 15 Comments »

- A Dress A Day
- Amateur Gourmet
- Eat Drink One Woman
- Eric Asimov
- Fashion Tribes
- Go Fug Yourself
- Manolo’s Shoe blog
- Megnut
- Miss Meghan
- On the runway
- Shoewama
- Shophound
- Showstudio
- Tehinterweb
- The Strong Buzz
- the food section
- Alien Onion
- Anonymous Lefty
- Articulate
- Damselfly
- Inside a dog
- Lili Wilkinson
- Margo Lanagan
- Matilda
- Nadstown
- Oh Errol
- Possums Pollytics
- Rjurik Davidson
- Sarsaparilla
- Semi Naked Truth
- Stack
- Talking Squid
- Tessa
- Watchdog of the Wankers
- Westerblog
- jonathan strahan
- petey sefton
- yoof literature
- ASIF!
- About Last Night
- Angry Black Woman
- Asking the Wrong Questions
- Baghdad Burning
- Carl Brandon Society Blog
- Chicken Spaghetti
- Critical Mass
- Edge of the West
- Emdashes
- Endicott Studio blog
- Freakonomics
- Jennifer Weiner
- LJ Folk
- Meg Cabot
- Pub Rants
- Sarah Weinman
- Smart Bitches
- The Longstockings
- Unshelved
- Vertical Books
- Women in comics
- Worth the Trip
- Writers Beware
- YA Authors Cafe
- YALSA
- Yellow Peril
- boingboing
- bookslut
- making light
- moorish girl
- mumpsimus
- nineseveneight
- normblog
- overheard in NYC
- whatever
- Alice Taylor
- Ben Rosenbaum
- Bennett Madison
- Charlie Stross
- Chris McLaren
- Christopher Barzak
- Christopher Rowe
- Claire Light
- David Moles
- Diana’s Diversions
- E. Lockhart
- Emily Pohl-Weary
- Gregory Frost
- Gwenda Bond
- Hal Duncan
- Jaclyn Moriarty
- Katie King
- Kristin Livdahl
- Lauren McLaughlin
- Margo Rabb
- Marrije
- Maureen Johnson
- Maureen McHugh
- Nathaniel Stern
- Scott Westerfeld
- Sheree Thomas
- Sillybean
- Walter Jon Williams
- Ysabeau Wilce
- jenny davidson
- lauren cerand
- maud newton
- nalo hopkinson
- pseudopodium
- rebecca skloot
- tingle alley
L'Fashion, L'Food
Oz
Regular Curiosities
Rest of the World
Sport
- "Bombs, brainwashing and supernovae" @robinwasserman? Sounds awesome. And all of those could be *on* a train. # 11 hours ago
- Er that last was meant for @robinwasserman. # 11 hours ago
- Have you got a plot yet? Is your hand still up? I'm on the acela 2 Philly. In the quiet car. Your plot shld involve trains. # 11 hours ago
Recent Comments
- AliceB on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Samwell on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- wandering-dreamer on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Ellen on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Cyndy Otty on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Stephanie on NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- angharad on Blank Page Heroine
- Sally on Liar Question
- Summer on FAQ
- Summer on Liar Question
- Summer on Liar Spoiler Thread (updated)
- moonspinner on Blank Page Heroine
- Philip on NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- imelda on NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- Kethry on NaNo Tip No. 14: Procrastination can be Your Friend
Recent Posts
- NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
- Liar Question
- NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- Blank Page Heroine
- NaNo Tip No. 16: Edit as You Go
- Signed Books in the USA
- NaNo Tip No. 14: Procrastination can be Your Friend
- Ebooks of My Novels
- NaNo Tip No. 12: Turn the Internet off
- Last Night’s Event
- NaNo Tip No. 10: Don’t Skip the Tricky Bits
- On Tips + OTP
- NaNo Tip No. 8: Square Brackets
- Girlfight
- NaNo Tip no. 6: Emergency Unstucking Techniques
Best of Blog
- Liar Spoiler Thread (updated)
- January is writing advice month (sticky post) Updated
- Types of crazy writers
- How to rewrite
- Getting paid, or, don’t quit your day job
- How to write a novel*
- A Writer’s Job (Updated)
- Too Young to Publish
- Average First Novel Advances
- A Beginner’s Guide to Cricket
- Being Dumped is Much Much Worse
Categories
- 1930s NYC novel
- Admin
- Basketball
- Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
- Best of Blog
- Bloggery
- Book challenges
- Book tour
- Cons & Other Gatherings
- Cricket
- Daughters of Earth
- Excuses
- Fans & readers
- Fashion
- Feminism
- First Kiss
- Food
- Frippery
- How To Ditch Your Fairy
- Ideas
- Last Day of the Year
- Liar
- Liquids
- Listening
- Love is Hell
- Magic or Madness trilogy
- Manga
- Mangosteens
- Musings
- New York City/USA
- Praising
- Publishing business
- Ranting
- Reading
- Research
- Science
- Scott's books
- Search Terms
- Sport
- State of the World
- Sydney/Australia
- Titles & names
- Toilets
- Tour de France
- Travelling
- Unicorns
- Vainglory
- Viewing
- What's your fairy?
- Whingeing
- Words & Language
- Writing goals & milestones
- Writing life
- Writing process
- Young Adult literature
- Zombies


dragonfly Says:
that is so wonderful that you went on a real holiday. sometimes being “off the grid” can be a real relief!
my holiday…my little boy’s first christmas was wonderful…but the weekend before was not so wonderful. i needed emergency gall bladder surgery!! but now no more gall bladder attacks in the dead of night…
i’m rambling. just wanted to say happy holidays. and that i love the picture of you and scott on his blog!!
December 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
2. Justine Says:
Hope you’re recovering well from the surgery. Yikes!
I am less enamoured of that photo on account of I had the flu and the glands around my neck are all swollen. Blerk.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
capt. cockatiel Says:
I love Free Rice! Best way to spend time when you’re bored… haha.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Kadie-Wa Says:
free rice…a bit random?? Lol
ouch, swollen glands. those hurt super bad.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
5. Justine Says:
Kadie-Wa: Free rice is the game I linked to above. I’ll edit the post to make it clear.
And, yes, swollen glands are most horrible!
December 28th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
dragonfly Says:
i’m recovering from the surgery more slowly than i’d like, but that’s life. every day is better, so i guess it’s going well.
and yes, free rice is way fun! addicting though..
December 28th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Mahek Says:
I hate holidays. Mention holidays and the next thing you know, I’m on the other side of the world. I really can’t bear not being able to write. It sucks.
Something else that bugs me is that I can’t write in uppercase and that is really starting to get on my nerves.
EEek! I just realised I’m touch typing and I have never been able to do it before. It feels weirds but cool at the same time.
Congrats on going on a holiday! And a real holiday.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Katie Says:
i love free rice! i’m addicted!
December 28th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Allie Says:
i love free rice! Its soo much fun
December 28th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Patrick, The Space Lord Says:
I have donated 100 grains of rice.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Danica Says:
I am completely in love with Free Rice! I challenged my friends to donate 100,000 grains of rice in seven days as a group. Well, we didn’t reach our goal, but it was super fun and we still donated lots. And. Lots. Of. Rice.
It’s a really good idea. Everyone! Gather a group together, set a goal and a time limit and improve your vocabulary!!
December 28th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
emzzy Says:
justine, has anyone ever told you how awesome you are?
December 28th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Mark Says:
Free rice is so addictive; since you know you’re doing something vaguely good for the world and improving your vocabulary, it’s so easy to just keep on clicking! I’m annoyed by the mixture of words that I thought everyone knew already and words I’ve never heard of.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Tim Says:
Did your holiday allow you to keep up with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy test?
And do you (or any australians you know) ever become fatigued of the baggy green’s greatness? just curious.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
ysa aka y Says:
tim=And do you (or any australians you know) ever become fatigued of the baggy green’s greatness? just curious.
NOOOoooOOOOoooOOOOoooOOOOoo! But the sweetheart is from England and he has politely requested that I, ahem, tone down my enthusiam a bit. I am hoping when we are permanently on the same continent that this will not raise an issue, especially since it will be his continent.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:31 pm