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Wild Things

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence

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I began the day by skimming bOINGbOING. I'm new to blogging and was searching for Hoyle's Rules of Games, so to speak. I managed to spend most of my writing time slot reading the entries by Cory Doctorow. He makes wordsmithing a joy and brings a more little respectability to all others who are attempting the same. I'm not big into science fiction, but I may have to change that.

In my novel-in-progress, GhostSeeker, I follow the life of Ivy Anne, a fifteen year girl who discovers her ability to see, hear, and talk to the dead. A self-proclaimed science geek, Ivy Anne struggles to dovetail both worlds: the natural and the supernatural. The school science experiment she is working on is based in real life on the astounding findings of naturalist John Mionczynski. He has discovered acid rain is cutting short the lives of Big Horn Sheep and other mammals in certain areas of the country. The structure of their food and soil has changed so dramatically, it is to the point where essential minerals are blocked out and toxic metals and locked in.

Why should this be of concern to us? Because it rains everywhere, and what is happening to their food is happening to ours.

Lots of wild things in this world, not all of them animals.

posted by A.M.Adams @ 7/23/2005 06:46:00 AM