If you follow college basketball, you know one of the current flames being fanned these days is how scoring is down, and what the cause might just be. For me, this is just one more of those things that make we wonder about how people–and especially people who should know better– think. First, let’s get […]
Read More ...Waves of Insight?
This is apparently the time of picking up “old” pieces and working on them. If you’re following me semi-closely, you’ll know that the past two weeks have been spent developing “Primes” a 9,000 word story that grew out of three sentences I had written back in 2005 and that I found laying around untouched since. […]
Read More ...Freakonomics Takes on Copyright
Here’s an interesting podcast from Freakonomics about copyright. I find pretty much everything these guys look at to be interesting, even when the results themselves are not as compelling as others. I like that they at least make the attempt to be data-driven about things. In this case, I think the main takeaways are that […]
Read More ...Technical Productivity?
I was standing in the hallway today at work today, waiting for a meeting room to open, when my gaze happened upon one of those posters you see so often that epitomize to me exactly why corporate environments have such dorky reputations. It included a photo, a logo, and a definition. Here’s the definition as […]
Read More ...Treadmill Desk: Status Update
As I’ve noted in a few places, Lisa and I bought ourselves a pair of treadmill desks for our Christmas present. They arrived last week, and we started using them immediately. That means we’re moving into week two of our desktop treadmills, so I thought I would give you a bit of a report on […]
Read More ...To SFWA or Not to SFWA
There was a time when I was a card-carrying member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, otherwise known as SFWA. I let my membership lapse for a collection of reasons, specifically including the fact that a huge amount of its energy was being spent defining who could be a part of it […]
Read More ...Get With it, February
Nice news comes today in the form of an email from Matt Bennardo, who is accepting my work for the One Sentence Story anthology he’s working on with Katie Sekelsky. I’m terribly excited to be a part of this project, as it sounds like great fun. Can’t wait to get hold of it. My story […]
Read More ...Second Drafts
It’s always good to finish the second draft of a story. Using the Anne Lamott version of the writing process, the first draft is just for getting everything down, and the second draft is for fixing everything up. Let’s skip her definition of the third draft (and beyond!) right now because she calls it the […]
Read More ...Me: The Upset Reader
Today I read a short story that really bugged me. I won’t mention titles or names of writers for several reasons, not the least of which is that I could be wrong–or, better said, what I think might not be what you think. You might love this piece I’m going to talk about. And, in […]
Read More ...Writing Fiction: Resolution Check-in #3
As we’re drawing toward the end of the month I’ve been touched on progress toward my resolutions of the new year. The only one I haven’t commented on yet is: “Write fiction every day.” The fact is that I’ve missed three days. Well, technically I guess I’ve only missed two days, but I admit it’s […]
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