Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
So I changed my writing schedule. I used to write in the afternoons, after finishing work. Now I've moved my work hours around so that they're happening in the afternoons and I'm writing in the morning.
The result?
1) I'm actually making progress on my book.
2) I look ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
I'm switching windupstories.com's feeds to run through Feedburner. This may screw up anyone who is already subscribed to the feed. Sorry about that.
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
The whole GMO thing has gotten me thinking about where we're headed as a democracy.
Technically, the democracy thing means that the general populace has a strong say in their local/regional/national governance. And when it was first created, it seems like it must have been pretty okay. When the only ...
Posted in food, politics | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
This is related to my spluttering about GMO's on Daniel Abraham's blog a week or so ago...
Dr. Katherine Miller (who happens to be teaching a course this semester on sci-fi and science, how cool is that?) just pointed me to the Monsanto vs Schmeiser case, in which a farmer ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
I'm wondering what people think about the value of blogging for writers. Specifically in the promotional sense. I've heard from a number of people that they think blogging is *the* way to get yourself out into the larger universe, or build up a following or... and I'm wondering if ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
I'm still unclear on how to tell when a story is really good and done, but I'm getting better at sensing when I'm not really dealing with a story's central problems. Some indicators, in a handy top ten list:
1) You keep rewriting your first sentence, which focuses on a ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
I just killed a character.
Well, what I really did is rip his guts out. He was fat; now he's thin. And pretty much everything else about him is going to be changed as well, which means that around 90,000 words worth of references to what this guy was ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
I learned a lot about spiders and drugs today:
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
I always thought the stork brought these, but apparently supermarkets also deliver.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
So, the reason I hate the internet (specifically email lists, blog posting areas, discussion boards, etc) is that it's an incredibly clumsy medium for discussing anything with any level of nuance.
The amount of time it takes to craft a post, only have it re-interpreted or mis-interpreted or simply ignored ...
Posted in misc, writing | 2 Comments »
