I took a moment to get my hair cut yesterday. Somewhere along the way, the woman doing the deed asked where I worked. I said, “I’m a writer.” It felt weird, but a good weird. # The Bartholomew County Writer’s Group met yesterday. It was a fun time, as always. We had a lot of […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
Rates of Male/Female “Heroes” in modern day scripts
This little scriptwriter meme has been floating around the net today, and I think it’s definitely interesting from a writer’s perspective. So check it out for that alone. But then I saw someone note that they were depressed that female heroes appeared in only 77 of the 277 scripts that were analyzed. This was considered […]
Read More ...Christmas in space? Oh, yes … with a twist of SF, of course
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner …” You think you know the story, right? But it goes deeper–way, way deeper–than that little rhyme could ever explain. For example, did you know the story happens in space? Probably not. And, did you know … wait … perhaps I’m going too far. If you want to […]
Read More ...“Three Days” on discount
Just a quick note to announce that Three Days in May … The Greatest Spectacle in Science Fiction, is available now on a holiday discount. This is a collection of stories set in and around the past and future of the Indianapolis 500, and includes “The Day the Track Stood Still,” which was first published […]
Read More ...Toe magician?
A conversation, held as Lisa and I were preparing to go to her work team’s outing last night: Lisa: It should be informal. Ron: Sounds good. Lisa: I think I’m going to wear jeans. Ron: < does not reply for too long > Lisa: Or not. I don’t know what I’ll wear. Ron: Don’t worry […]
Read More ...The Spree Challenge
Today I give you the Spree challenge. It may not be what you’re thinking of as we move into the big December period of shopping sprees and other such holiday events. Instead it has to do with a book, titled, well … uh, Spree, and written by Kris Rusch. It is a detective/crime story set […]
Read More ...Title neep
I love when this happens. So for Quite Some Time, I’ve been calling Episode 6, well, um, Episode Six. Not like Episode Seven: Lord of the Freeborn. Just Episode Six. This was no good. Then John Bodin, who is a first reader of mine, said he was nearly ready for it, and I decided I […]
Read More ...Settling in
Book recommendation: I’m only a quarter of the way through it, but Jim Hines’ Libriomancer is a lot of fun. # I can tell it’s going to take a few weeks for me to settle into whatever my daily cycle is going to be–maybe a few months, really, since December is a weird month. Part […]
Read More ...What is “work?”
So today I wrote for a bunch of the day, and I worked on a different project. And I also took a 20 minute break to vacuum the family room area–which, admittedly has needed it for some time. My brain wandered as I was vacuuming, I realized that something I had written earlier in the […]
Read More ...Lisa gives FIUITP a “thumbs up”
Lisa’s role as a guinea pig is now officially complete, and the vote is in. Her commentary on my Guinness Beef Stew (compliments of Matt Horgan) was: “Well, I’m not really a meat & potatoes kind of girl, but this was very yummy! The house smelled wonderful when I got home from work. This stew […]
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