A co-worker recently lent me a copy of The Science of Superheroes, a work I was aware of but had never previously seen. It’s a quick read, but my time is limited so I’m working my way through it 30 or so pages a night. Great fun so far. I’ve especially enjoyed how Weinberg and […]
Read More ...Success Stories
I see that SFWA is going to simulcast the Nebula Awards banquet. That should be interesting. May 15…hum…checking calendar. I have always been an awards kind of guy. Yes, the weird voting patterns and the in-fighting that surrounds them can be a bit, er, flummoxing, but I generally find my way around that aspect of […]
Read More ...How to Gain Minions?
Lisa forwarded me this. My favorite part is the kicker at the end. Note — I’ve just changed my theme here, and for whatever reason the linked text in this one isn’t clearly showing up…I’ll work on that in the next few days. In the meantime, just wave your mouse over that first sentence. Sorry […]
Read More ...Movie Night
Lisa and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon last night, a movie Brigid recommended (she had dragged her boyfriend to it earlier, and even he had liked it). Much fun, if just a tiny bit slow at one part. This morning it was back to the novel grindstone. I’m nearing the halfway […]
Read More ...“Kagari” Hits the Post
I completed a short story titled “Kagari” this weekend. Both Brigid (my daughter, for those of you who might be newish to me) and Lisa (wife) have read it and liked it. I mentioned it before as a story I’ve spent probably a quarter-million words on, so I’m happy to see it finally rounded into […]
Read More ...Getting off the Couch
I got up off the couch one day last week and went to the kitchen to make my lunch. What is important to know about this particular event is that it was nighttime when I got off the couch and the lunch I was preparing was for tomorrow. I got out the bread and the […]
Read More ...Paying the Price
Okay, I took a diversion. After thinking through the plot structure of a new story, and after noting I was working through a novel, I happened across an draft of an old story that I had put away for some time because I was unhappy with its middle. And its end. But the beginning has […]
Read More ...Deca-Dad Goes to Analog
A few days back Patrick Kelty, a friend of mine on Facebook, asked if he was ever going to get to read one of these stories I’m tending blather on about. I told him I had a few editors I wanted him to meet. Well, apparently he found one. I’m pleased to report today that […]
Read More ...Thinking Bigger…er…or at least more
Once again, I spent much of this morning thinking about the high-level plot of this latest story. It’s coming together, and I like it quite a bit. I admit I’m a bit worried about length, though. It looks to me like a 30-40,000 word piece, which is not particularly marketable. And the fundamental idea strikes […]
Read More ...Thinking
Great basketball game last night. Butler’s last shot really, really, really needed to go in. Sigh. Technically, I completed no words this morning. I did, however, spend more than an hour thinking about the project and jotting down a bunch of notes that increased the size of the file by about four pages. So I […]
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