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Writing, by Gudrun, on December 24, 2009
Our fish tank is maybe 4 feet wide, and holds about 20 fish. Of those 20 there are 3 couples, one male and his harem, and 4 clown fish. The couples stick together and have their little territories within the tank.
One of the couples is of the species Neolamprologus brevis. They have a shell for a house. The female, Samantha, is often in the shell, and the male, Jean-Claude, floats above it to keep guard, but at night they both sleep in the shell together. In another corner there is a couple of Altolamprologus compressiceps, who are tall and flat,
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The Book, by Gudrun, on December 18, 2009
Chapter 2 has been re-re-written and posted in all of its 17 glorious pages for reading pleasure. If you are so inclined, click to read it, or follow links on the right.
Research, by Gudrun, on December 18, 2009
Tanzania and Lake Tanganyika
After gaining independence from Britain, the East African territory called Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar merged to create Tanzania in 1964. Tanzania borders the Indian Ocean, lies south of Kenya and north of Mozambique. It has a total area of 365,754 square miles (947,300 square kilometers), a bit less than one and a half times the area of France.
Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, as well as the Serengeti Game Reserve and the mythical island paradise of Zanzibar. It is where Mary Leaky discovered the footprints of our earliest known ancestors, Australopithecines, and Jane Goodall lived with
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The Book, by Gudrun, on December 16, 2009
Read Chapter 1 of Antoinette’s Fish!
If it were on paper, it would be around 7 pages long.
Research, by Gudrun, on December 15, 2009
When I wrote the first draft of Antoinette’s Fish, I was too excited about the story to do any research. I decided to do it afterwards, and I cobbled something together with the limited fish-knowledge I had garnered from my husband’s hobby-ism and a travel guide for Tanzania. Now that I am rewriting, I am required to go back and check the biology and geography of what and where I am talking about.
I hoped that most of my facts were roughly accurate, so when I did fill in the details I wouldn’t change them so much that it altered the
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Comic, by Gudrun, on December 14, 2009
This past weekend I spent my time writing the story for the weekly web comic that will be soon posted on this site. And it’s great.
Which is so exciting. Before I started writing, I studied illustration, and then animation. It’s only natural that I’d want to create some sort of comic, but I never had the gumption to put together a story and illustrate it. Though I find myself somewhat skilled in the use of words and pictures and graphic language and design, whatever has to be done to create a successful merging of those things to create a sequential
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Writing, by Gudrun, on December 10, 2009
The premise for Antoinette’s Fish was inspired by a number of different, seemingly unremarkable events and factoids that all came together at just the right moment.
First is me. It’s unremarkable that I grew up in Maine, and have a fascination with Africa. Everybody grew up somewhere, and everyone is intrigued by something.
Second, is the 300 liter aquarium my husband keeps. At the beginning of our relationship I thought his fish were little more than an expensive hobby that took too much of his precious time away from me. But as I got to know them, I became more interested. They
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The Book, by Gudrun, on December 9, 2009
You pronounce “Velter” like “Voltaire” but with a “vel” at the beginning. Emphasizing the second syllable.
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