45 years ago today, two men left boot marks on the surface of the moon.

Back in 2001, I wrote something on the topic - the first fanfic I ever put up for public consumption. For the occasion, I'm reposting it to AO3:

Moonwalk

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Working on a cold open for a story, and I'm debating whether to start it out as follows:

"It was supposed to be a dark and stormy night."

Still working on the next few paragraphs, which might explain why that statement is plot-significant, rather than merely atmospheric.

Hey, gang.

I didn't get around to signing up for NaNoWriMo this year - again. But I think I might have a go at it anyway. Gonna see what I can make of Blue Screen of Revolution. Anyone else ever try that ... unofficially ( Read more... )

I'm finding that as I do snippet work - building the skeleton of the story I'm trying to write - I'm starting to write another story at the same time. Taking place probably two hundred, two hundred fifty years earlier. In the same 'verse ( Read more... )

"If you really need to know what sort of a computer system you're dealing with, order it to perform an impossible task. A pure-logic system will choke on it and probably crash. A true AI will generally respond by telling you to perform an impossible task."

I just realized that, in working on the skeleton of "Blue Screen of Revolution", that I've committed a major faux pas that annoys me no end in sci-fi I've read in the past ten years or so ( Read more... )

Work's getting a little busy again. Unfortunately, so is protest season. Fortunately (I suppose), it's also the rainy season ( Read more... )

The links that have popped up about the Bechdel test got me thinking about my own writing. Being a guy, I suspect I have a tendency to default to "write what you know" - but then again, my writing generally hasn't been tailored to finding a profitable audience or what have you, so if a plot I'm working on calls for two women to have a discussion ( Read more... )

So, the idea sort of percolated up. It's only about five three percent formed, but here's what I've got so far. Only a snippet, I'm afraid.

( Tenative title: 'The St Trinian's Job' )

I think that a fic writer, especially in this medium, owes it to the readership at large to put up warnings at the head of the fic. General courtesy, and doubly so if the fic involves topics or situations that reasonable people of various persuasions might find uncomfortable ( Read more... )