Go Obama!

US to support UN Gay Rights Declaration

The Obama administration will support a United Nations declaration affirming that sexual orientation and gender identity are included in international human rights protections, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday evening.

Now will people please shut up and stop saying that Obama will stab us in the back now that he's in office? He's on our side, people, and he keeps showing it!

Character sketch FAIL on my part

I realized the other night that I've neglected to actually describe what the leads of Project Samurai look like in much detail. Have to remember that though I know what they look like in my head, other people don't. D'oh! I fixed that and moved one part of the first chapter to make it flow better, though I'm likely going to go back and tweak it even more.

That probably is one of my Achilles Heels, since I tend to feel like doing too much description is bad, but I go too far in the other direction. I've seen some authors be minimal in descriptions and do a good job at it (Robert B. Parker's a good example), but on the flipside, use too much and you start to sound like you're writing a Mary Sue. I tend to go for more intangible aspects like the way people hold themselves and what their eyes seem to say, since that's what I tend to notice about people.

Maybe the reason I'm not as good at writing physical descriptions is because I'm used to doing fanfiction, and when you do that you assume that people already know what the people look like. It's a lot different when you're using original characters, so that's something I have to work on.