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Trying to decide what short story to write next as a side project. Options: hard SF space story, augmented reality story, urban fantasy noir story, or mothman story (lots of research in the latter, and I don't have a story idea for it yet). Which would you like to read?

I dreamed of a monolithic, hoarfrost-covered space station with rotating rings. Maybe it was alien. We didn't know how it worked or what had happened. Something had gone wrong and killed or vanished all the inhabitants. On the outer rim, where there used to be a park protected from space by a force bubble, now there were ice sculptures, frozen ( Read more... )

Dear Writer Brain,

I Did. Not. Need. a full-fledged eco-activist endangered gorilla/zombie story to burst full-fledged into my mind. Really. I have one writing project that I'm barely able to keep up with the required words for, another that I'm thisclose to finishing, a third that I'm collaborating on with another person that I really need to get ( Read more... )

Had one of those ridiculously vivid dreams ( Read more... )

Trying to think of ways to raise money for my mother's cancer treatment, and my brain was eaten by the idea of running a free online serial about a circus traveling through an immediately post-apocalyptic steampunk world. There would be freaks and amazements and explosions and a murder mystery and true love and lots of figuring out how to survive ( Read more... )

So, the short story that I'm about to start...assembling...is told in spam headlines. Like you would see in a Gmail spam folder. The sender, subject line, and the first few words of the email.
So...I need your spam headlines. The stereotypical ones, as well as the ones that just made you grin because they were weird or funny ( Read more... )

This was another really good panel. There were lots of questions raised that could lead to good stories, and once the transcript is posted I'll put it here (my browser kicked me out partway through, so I lost the first half).

Resources[kalcobalt] 3:45 pm: ah! Thanks, Deena.     I should put in a brief plug: my ( Read more... )

Phil can be annoying.

Me: Vampire yakuza!

Him: Crappy.

Me: Stealing starpower by fucking ancient Johnny Depp in a nursing home!

Him: Crappy idea. Sorry, love, you have better. Write those instead.

Me: Grrrrr.....

So, I e-filed taxes with HR Block. Then I got an email saying there was a problem with my return--name and birthday weren't matching up. I curse HR Block's software, sure that they screwed it up, but I call the SS administration to check. (By the way, contacting the SS at 8a.m. on Tuesday morning was super-fast. I wasn't really on hold at all. ( Read more... )