Tien’s blog

Most of my time the last day or two has been devoted to setting up my new AIDS Lifecycle Wiki, which I expect will mostly be a community effort by one person (that would be me)–I mostly want to play with Mediawiki! It’s been pretty complex setting up the antispam guards and configuring the [...]

So, I’ve got interviews with Tilmin (a 300-lb, 5′0″ woman who lost 75 pounds while training) on Thursday and Ginger the drag queen on Saturday. Scott the Cheerleader I’m going to ring up on Wednesday to arrange an interview; I’ve also emailed Ken and Warren to ask them if they have any “stories from [...]

Finally heard back from my writing coach, who thinks my sample chapter is a “damn fine chapter”. I responded by asking how I could strengthen the first and last stories, and mentioned I was considering taking out one of the stories entirely because I didn’t think it was as strong as the others. [...]