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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 very well yet....
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 specific...
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 seems to be a...
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 post. The following are items I...
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 broken bill changer,...
Called my mother…
We talked for far too long and such, and she randomly said that she thought I was a talented writer and she would live to see me and my sister both in print someday. What? To the best of my knowledge she hasn't read anything I wrote since high school! ...Well, I did...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.