Typewriters again

For no real reason, I decided to see if my old typewriter still works last night. I needed to add some new ribbons, but that was it. It's a Smith Corona CXL4700 with the correctable ribbon and spell check. Of course that means the spell check beep goes off whenever I use a name or place. It's like the red squigglies in MS Word, only more annoying. The correct button gets a little stuck sometimes, but otherwise everything worked as normal.

Bandai licensing news: Apparently they've licensed the Gundam Seed movies and followup series Destiny. Personally I'm looking forward to their release of "Planetes" with all the space program commentary.

Writing stuff

So I've gone back to one of my initial goals at New Year's, revising that pesky first chapter of "Going Under". My father's library proved useful when I discovered a book called Lost Warships, a large coffee table sized book on warships and maritime archaeology. He found me a copy after Christmas, along with books on the Swedish ship the Vasa. I'm hoping I will have the chapter finished by tomorrow. The opening is still eluding me though.

neadods posted a nice long post on her take on reviewing cozy mysteries with examples of the good and the bad points. She also recommended jimbutcher's occasional posts on writing F&SF.

Tokyopop is apparently doing their own free magazine Takuhai. You can sign up for the first issue here.