So batfic-contest is doing some special themed prompts in preparation for The Dark Knight Rises. No word limits, just a few prompts they'll be posting and voting on over the next few weeks leading up to the movie release. They didn't have many pimping images, so I made a few of my own. Nothing special, just based them off of the Dark Knight Rises movie posters ( Read more... )

Not too much in the way of updates today, but I did send out several resubmissions to a few prospective magazines. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be hearing back from a few of them. Let's see, according to Duotrope I have 2 fantasy, 2 horror, 1 sci fi, and 1 reprint currently in the review process, 3 of which were submitted just today. Whew, ( Read more... )

Friday I got an announcement email reminding bloggers not only about the fact that NaNoWriMo was coming up at the beginning of November, but also a really neat idea about how to gear up for it. I wrote on my first NaNo last year, and simply fell in love with it. It not only gave me an excuse to devote time each day to writing, but also forced me to ( Read more... )

So I haven't updated over here in a few days, partly because work has been sapping my time and also because I've been busy editing & playing video games to zone out on. I'm up to chapter 11 with my edits on Suzie, meaning we're well over halfway and much closer to the end. I believe there are only 18 chapters in the book ( Read more... )

Wow, a few of these look like they'd make a dandy inspiration for a science fiction piece!

Make Way for the Robots - Automated Medical Care is a Reality

Providing care for senior citizens: In a nation filled with baby boomers who don’t have caregivers and who live alone, these robots are definitely going to be a boon not just to the elderly, but ( Read more... )

So this has been a fairly productive weekend for me! At least it feels like it has. Didn't get in as much editing as I was hoping for, but some is better than none, right? ;)


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Along the same lines of the Lovecraft Lineage panel I went to over the weekend, I found this blog post about the anger of Cthulu highly entertaining.

Unless you have discipline and put very strict conditions on what you're doing, matching HTML with regular expressions rapidly devolves into madness, just how Cthulhu likes it.

Parsing Html The ( Read more... )