The Boston Globe has an interesting take on revising your work: that it's largely a product of 20th-century culture (the Modernists) and technology (typewriters), and we might be seeing another shift as computers make on-the-fly editing possible.

Interview on writing with Elmore Leonard. Of particular interest to me is the part of the interview in ( Read more... )

This is so cool: the Atlas of True Names. In a way, it takes our real world and makes a fantasy map out of it -- except it's all real ( Read more... )

If you had to flee your house and country forever, and could only take one thing with you, what would it be? This photo essay poses refugees with their most important possession.Now here's what I did, and what I recommend doing: before you click on the link, think about it. If you had to flee forever, what would be the first thing you'd grab, and ( Read more... )

Today's cheery glimpse of spring:


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For some reason I can’t seem to focus on any project for more than 5 minutes today. Guess I’ll write a slightly disjointed blog post, then.

Tomorrow I’ll be at the Biz Bee as the table-decoration judge. This is an annual fundraiser for the Literacy Council of Alaska: local business sponsor 3-person teams, who compete in a spelling bee. I ( Read more... )

Torn World is a shared world project that I’ve been loosely involved with, off and on, for the last year or so. (Not that I’ve been particularly active. I keep meaning to do more, but then … stuff happens.) Anyway, there is a new overview post at torn-world, and there’s going to be a new ongoing story starting up soon, so if you’re curious about Torn World, ( Read more... )

Tor.com is hosting a couple of book rereads (with accompanying open discussion threads) that are of interest to me, and maybe to you! Their chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit is just getting started. And they’re two books into a book-by-book Dresden Files reread. (The new book comes out on Nov. 27! WHY YES I HAVE PREORDERED.)

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Comical case names of actual cases in U.S. law (er, I assume so - there are citations for them!).

Each one of these obviously has a story behind it.

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A few links to cool things discovered lately:

18 Homes that Belong in a Fairy Tale - I can’t believe some of these are real houses that people actually (one assumes) live in.

25 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real - some of these would make awesome sci-fi or fantasy settings!

Today’s xkcd is a diagram of the Saturn V rocket labeled ( Read more... )

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