Wow. 1000+ words!
And they’re good words, according to the S.O. Much, much progress on the time dilation story. All the chunky bits of exposition worked in non-chunkily, and mainly the denoument to go, I think. Heh. He still wants to kill the antagonist. Hopefully she’s...Things to do instead of writing.
Download and install Microsoft.net framework. Install Slug, a client for Movable Type. Play with Naturally Speaking. Read Meet Me at Infinity. Take bath. Pet cats. Drink too much diet Coke. Put feet up. Maybe I should just take the night...Fiction I’ve read recently:
Racoona Sheldon, The Screwfly Solution James Tiptree, Jr., The Women Men Don’t See Joanna Russ, When it Changed Tim Pratt, Little Gods Okay, I actually read Joanna Russ’ story in a college science fiction course and reread it recently. I still enjoy it as...My New Job
The new job is definitely of the good. I go forth, I restore order to the computing universe, and I leave happy people in my wake. Best of all, I’m not trapped at my desk forbidden to go to lunch or dinner or home for 72 hours at a time. I walk around campus....Fun with software (not adventures in procrastination!)
Several months ago, I got a cheap copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking, but then my computer died. I installed it today. In fact, I’m using it now. I thought it would be fun to use with Final Draft to write scripts, but it doesn’t really recognize my voice...Progress!
Well, as far as words written, it’s probably not that impressive, but last night I made a lot of progress on the time dilation story. Math, physics, and characterization progress:I decided the ship was going too fast. I picked a destination, which gave me...Curses! Foiled Again!
I got a lovely mail-merged rejection note from F&SF. I was under the impression most places used preprinted sheets of paper: “Dear writer, thank you for thinking of us but we cannot use this material at this time. –Editor.” The body of the letter...New Year’s Resolutions
I’d really like to post something like, “This year I will get published, sell my movie script, and win the Georgia Lottery,” but none of those things are under my control, so there’s no point in having them in a New Year’s Resolutions...Quest for Fire
I just sent “Victual-Seeking Varmints from Outer Space” to F&SF, after much Questing for Fire. The first Kinko’s had a broken printer. The second Kinko’s refused to do an SASE because they only had a meter, not stamps. The post office had a...Subscribe
