Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
There's been a fair amount of talk about the die-off in the short fiction magazine markets. Interestingly, this is often played as indicating their loss of relevance either generationally (sf market is aging) or else technologically (The internet is where it's at! All else will crumble and fall before it!) ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
My son just discovered what candy is all about.
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I've been thinking about the idea of murdering pretties a lot lately -- mostly because I've been murdering a bunch of them in my novel. On one level, this works well for me. I've cut some scenes because I recognized that while I was personally attached to writing and the ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
You think I'm in the gutter, but I'm not, at least, not today. Or at least, not the way you expect.
Last summer, I took my novel-in-progress to Blue Heaven. I got some really good feedback from all the other writers there. One of the more sharp-edged comments was along the ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
I'm going to be at MileHiCon at the end of this month (Oct 26,27,28), doing a reading (probably from the novel in progress) and also a panel or two. That's the good thing. I'm really looking forward to getting out of town and meeting up with various writer friends. ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
So, I quit my job last week. I've been working at High Country News for the last 4 years, which is actually a record for me. It's a little difficult to walk away from, because in comparison to any number of other jobs, it was pretty good: interesting work, cool ...
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