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365 Things
One of my New Year’s resolutions is less a resolution than an experiment. I am going to try to rid myself of one object, thing, trinket, machine, doodad, tchotchke, whatever a day for the next year....
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Writing goals 2013
The problem I’m having with setting a writing goal for the coming year is that there is no one task I do everyday when I’m writing. Not even putting words on a page. Which is why a daily word count...
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Writing update, week of… January so far
I suppose I didn’t have an actual recorded New Year’s resolution to report about my writing to the webosphere, but I nevertheless thought that might be something I’d do for accountability purposes, now...
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Once Upon A Time: On Henry
I got the first season of OUAT on DVD for Xmas and have been doing a rewatch. Simultaneously, I’ve been plotting the second draft of my novel using the hero’s journey as a rough template, so I had the...
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31 Things
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to clear out Stuff I Don’t Need from my living space. To that end, I resolved to get rid of one thing (or set of things) every day this year. So far, so good,...
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Know thy book
Now here is a lesson I need to take to heart: http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2013/02/05/tell_me/ I think I spent more time during the writing of the first draft of my novel explaining what was going on...
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Holy Yikes! Self-publishing and Tax Law
I published a book last year. I made some dough on it. Not a lot, but enough to generate two 1099-MISC forms from Amazon and Smashwords. This week, I went to the TurboTax website to do my taxes....
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The kinks: stories and our emotional response to them
A friend and I were discussing some of the more “interesting” fannish speculation we’ve encountered while out and about on the interwebs for various reasons re: Once Upon A Time. We both agreed we have...
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Sit. Walk. Write: Natalie Goldberg’s “The True Secret of Writing”*
Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe, Arizona March 21, 2013 I have a confession to make: when non-Asian first-world people use Buddhist philosophy as a guiding framework for understanding some random part...
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Confessions of a Hero Whore
More often than not when you ask me who my favorite character in a book, film, or television series is, it’s the hero. Not that I don’t appreciate the grayer characters, the morally ambiguous...
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Are blogs the new journals?
I saw this article recently in my writing blogs: http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/are-blogs-the-new-journals It’s been ten years since I kept a “proper” journal. You...
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When is a geek not a geek?
Apparently, I’ve lead a sheltered life. But I know why. First, a rec from the man behind Wesley Crusher: http://wilwheaton.net/2013/07/nothing-to-prove/ I have only been aware of this...
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I want candy
My life since graduate school: I am a child in a candy store, the one who is told she cannot eat anything until she’s finished her chores. I have a job, but beyond that, few responsibilities. I am...
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The short story of science fiction
In the past couple weeks, I have been reading science fiction short stories. In typical fashion, I have this need to be systematic and thorough, so I am choosing my stories in a chronological fashion....
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Things
I am looking forward to some parts of Christmas–spending time with my family, eating good food. But the gift-giving parts, not so much. Not that I have a problem spending a little dough on my loved...
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Pulp (Science) Fiction
Yeah. So. I might have been a little hasty in my prediction that all 30′s pulp sci fi would be melodramatic. Too much (over)exposure to Captain Proton. That said, the sci-fi of the 1930′s still seems...
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The golden age of Science Fiction
Depending on who you ask, the “Golden Age of Science Fiction,” is either “undisputedly,” or just “widely recognized” as the 1940′s (and possibly 50′s). Of course, one person’s Golden Age is another...
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Science Fiction’s New Wave
The “New Wave” era represented the coming of age of science fiction, both when it started to enter the mainstream, and also when it attained a level of sophistication that could claim itself as...
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Cyberpunk
“Every few years there appears a movement to improve or modernize or even “futurize” the writing of science fiction. The classic example was the New Wave, which had an effect on the style of SF...
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I’ve got an itch to scratch
Just got done reading the first book of James SA Corey’s Expanse series, Leviathan Awakes. In a nutshell, it’s a space opera set in a future where humans have settled the solar system, but are not yet...
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