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Tracking total file usage, DBs only.
Yes, I've been bad about updating. I was traumatized by a bunch of friends getting laid off from a former employer, and then I had two very busy weeks. This system of tracking total file usage, DBs only, came up talking to someone recently (Eric, are you reading...
Those Special Moments
I've already had that special moment when you realize that you're probably going to cut 6,000 words from your short story in progress. Today I had that special moment when I realized that I've written 13,000 words and haven't reached my central conflict yet. This is...
I’m in the BroadPod again!
I read an excerpt from "The Last Wasicu" in the Broadpod, here. It's one of my favorites of mine.
New Author Photos!
These were taken by Luke McGuff at Wiscon this year. You can see the entire collection here: Wiscon Photo Booth.
How Not to Use Linked In to Get a Job
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Daily Words Redux
Lunchtime and right before I leave work are apparently not-so-much times for writing. I think it's because, as Douglas Adams said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." I've been resisting writing in the mornings because I'm really a great big ginormous ditz...
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.