The Old Hack

Mph. I feel that is stretching it, but that is because I know the character and would be hard put to see him as anything but a big friendly dork. Mind, if it had been Rich...

Why would assuming that make her a good feminist? And besides, what he does doesn't even remotely resemble sexual harassment.

It's proof that she is good at her job.

I love the way Pandora looks in the last panel.

/me says that should go in the list, but I'm letting you slide by this time.

For an agent of chaos she does get confused a lot.

I love the way Pandora looks in the last panel.

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As a writer, I find Dan's commentary intensely irritating. He is jumping the gun. First of all, to have part two right after part one is no more than pandering to the audience's expectations. One needs to be more bold! I usually don't have my prologue until at least in the middle of part eleven, and in my next planned book I am killing off my protagonist in part three (which comes immediately after part seven, which is the one I traditionally open my books with.)

Ah, Susan. Reactions like this are why you're one of my favorite characters. ^.^

As a writer, I find Dan's commentary intensely irritating. He is jumping the gun. First of all, to have part two right after part one is no more than pandering to the audience's expectations. One needs to be more bold! I usually don't have my prologue until at least in the middle of part eleven, and in my next planned book I am killing off my protagonist in part three (which comes immediately after part seven, which is the one I traditionally open my books with.)

Has Grace's family kept in touch?
The only communication we've seen so far was the video call on Grace's birthday, but that doesn't mean that's the only one they've made.  I'd like to think that Grace gets to talk with her family on a regular basis, even if there may be some subjects they can't discuss openly.  I'd really like to see her visit them, or them visit her!

You strictly speaking don't need an earthquake for that. All you need is a cat. Or two, like my own dearly departed fur-covered troublemakers.
Hm. I wonder if felines intensify the scale logarithmically, too? So one cat can create a force 1 catastrophe, two of them force 10, three of them force 100...

Good jokes often have at least some basis in reality
Steven Brust has experimented with this. In his excellent book Taltos (book four in the series about Vladimir Taltos the assassin) he writes no less than three interweaving stories that all take place at different times and all come together seamlessly at the end. The movie Short Cuts presents a series of short films that all tie together in the end. It is actually a time honoured device to start a story in media res (you enter in the middle of an action sequence) and then only later learn how it all began. In fact, that is the beginning of A New Hope. I also recall several episodes of NCIS which open with one or more protagonists in dire trouble and the rest of the team trying to work out where they are and how it happened.
Mind you, as with all other story devices it may be done well or badly. Done well it adds challenge and zest to the entertainment. Done badly it is just a mess.

Awkward Tensaided is awkward. And somewhat funny.
You're joking, but I know of at least one novel that does this: Lanark by Alasdair Grey. It begins with book three of four. Then comes the prologue and book one. Also, the epilogue is four chapters before the end. There's probably more books that do this, telling a story in a non-linear way is a staple of today's fiction after all.

As a writer, I find Dan's commentary intensely irritating. He is jumping the gun. First of all, to have part two right after part one is no more than pandering to the audience's expectations. One needs to be more bold! I usually don't have my prologue until at least in the middle of part eleven, and in my next planned book I am killing off my protagonist in part three (which comes immediately after part seven, which is the one I traditionally open my books with.)

That might just be a bit more Avant Garde than the audience is willing to take . . .

Thanks.
My connection slows to a crawl and is often lost when I make my way through the EGS archives.

As a writer, I find Dan's commentary intensely irritating. He is jumping the gun. First of all, to have part two right after part one is no more than pandering to the audience's expectations. One needs to be more bold! I usually don't have my prologue until at least in the middle of part eleven, and in my next planned book I am killing off my protagonist in part three (which comes immediately after part seven, which is the one I traditionally open my books with.)

This one?

From the hurricane near miss to the earthquake near miss.
Be grateful, be helpful to those who weren't so lucky, and be prepared because the next one might not be a near miss.

Well it did rain again today, briefly.
Not a heavy rain but still embarrassing.  I called for lunch delivery, and it was dry.  About an hour later, the rain started and the driver showed up with my delivery.  I apologized and gave a large tip.
A long time ago I was in pizza delivery and hated it when people called us for delivery in bad weather.  I do not want to be "That Guy".

I can finally talk about the new music I wrote! Well, I can talk about it a little bit. That top secret music project I was working on is a group of new songs for the Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour release. It's mentioned on http://dukenukem.com (scroll down and you'll see it - the web site is kind of borked at the moment). The game comes out October 11th. I wrote songs for an entire new episode of the original game—digital this time, not just MIDI.
No, I can't post samples yet. Don't have authorization from Gearbox. I hope you'll like the songs when the game is released, though!

SECONDED

Considering what Edward did to Abraham, a mage that came close to killing a half-immortal, I think there's a lot more Edward could do and his niece knows it. He barely restrained Nanase on New Years Eve and that was just about telling Tedd the truth about his mom. Maybe Edward's attitude here has more to do with not wanting Nanase to follow the same path as his wife than concern about Diane, someone he's only met once very briefly.