So, I was participating in a Twitter discussion about feminist speculative fiction, and I got told that I can't call myself a feminist because I'm male ( Read more... )

You know, I just assumed that a bunch of my friends would be doing NaNoWriMo again this year, but I never actually polled. How many of you who read this are doing it? I'm only coming up with one off the top of my head ( Read more... )

I like to joke that I'm the only person I know who doesn't have an advanced degree ( Read more... )

I have a story that is set in the future, with a character who would be a young person right now (about 10-15 years old). I need him to express that a particular application of a physical theory (e.g. faster-than-light travel) is a pie-in-the-sky, and the fact that someone has accomplished it is profound. However, I'd like to have him word it in ( Read more... )

We have a high school student living with us at the moment. To make a (very) long story short, California's foster care system does a downright appalling job of dealing with kids who turn 18 but have not yet completed their senior year, leaving them with the option of either quitting school and getting a job or finding someone willing to take them ( Read more... )

After sending the same links to different people a few too many times, I've finally broken down and posted a list of useful online resources for writersOf course, this is just the handful of places I happened to have bookmarked (or happened to be able to find easily). So I figured I'd see if anyone out there has favorite online (and preferably ( Read more... )

My next-door neighbor has locked herself out of her Windows XP box. It's a 6- or 7-year-old e-machine (not a brand I'm familiar with), and she reports that she erroneously tried a number of times to log in using her work password instead of her home password. She believes she remembers her home password, but the computer gives her an incorrect ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I use a lot of open-source software ( Read more... )

Call me morbidly curious...

How many rejection letters you let a given story collect before you declare it unpublishable and assign it to your proverbial "writer's trunk"? What's your rubric? How do you decide that it's time to move a story to the "retired" section of Duotrope?

Enquiring minds want to know!

So, it turns out that even though I'm not eligible to vote for the Nebula Awards, I'm eligible to nominate for them ( Read more... )