Kitties in the sun.
Is it wrong?
Is it wrong to be slightly envious of my fiction for being better travelled than me? I’ve never been sad about a story going to New Jersey instead of me, but I’m about to send a story to England. I’ve been to England, but it was in the late 1970s and...Vanity publishing, rejection, and other gibberings.
Teresa Nielson Hayden has a blog entry about a guy selling his unfinished manuscript on ebay. He includes a letter from a “legit company” offering to publish his novel for only $700. I have no idea if this guy can write or not, but I hope he listens to the...Break it! Break it!
So, Grandfather Paradox is currently at 1500 words. I think this is a bit short, and I think it’s short because I’m not breaking things enough. Things need to be broken in order to have things to fix during the course of the story. So, clearly I need to...You know what helps when I’m stuck?
Analyzing structure. It’s not something that tends to occur to me often. I’m more of a sleep-on-it, wake-up-drooling-into-my-pillow-with-the-answer kind of writer. There’s a part of my brain that I seem to access most easily if I’m not...short fiction paradox
One of my stories in progress has just gone in a totally unexpected direction. Which is when the good stuff happens, in my opinion. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that there’s no point in writing if I know how the story is going to end, but a large part of...Happy birthday, Freddie!
Happy birthday to the lovely, delightful Freddie Baer: a talented artist, a sweet and wonderful person, and one of the few people I would be happy to lose Alice in Jungleland to at auction. 😀 Happy birthday, Freddie! You...Virii and other disasters
Y’know, after the sixth machine I put my floppy into started screwing up, I might start to think maybe it was me. Or my (virusy) floppy. I’m just sayin’. No, I’m really not getting much writing done, so you get virii and the pain of utilities....Change of address
I just changed my address for F&SF and Asimov’s via their nifty forms. I feel like there’s something I’m forgetting to do. I wish I knew what it was. In other exciting news, my Internet connection at home is the suck. Also, I am weary of cleaning...Subscribe
