No news external to me since last we were here, so I'll bore you with a writing report!  Wordage since last time was about 3000 words, but, more importantly, I finished that novella (at 15K words), so will be writing other stuff when next we meet ( Read more... )

It used to be a truism that the science fiction genre was very well suited to the novella form.  The arguments for this were pretty sound and logical: before the author could really let his or her plot unfold, thay needed to ground the reader in a world that was likely extremely different from the reader's own.  This could take a bit of time, and ( Read more... )