I got a draft of a critical essay about Frankenstein done today, and I'm pretty happy with the argument. It's rough yet, but I'll get to work on organizing it better when I'm not traveling and can print it out and scribble on it ( Read more... )

HELLO WORLD ( Read more... )

Dr. Straightcopy

Or,

How I learned to stop worrying about wordcount and love telling stories again

So one of the questions people who want to be professional writers ask me is, "How much do you write a day?"

This is code.

It's code for, "How much do I have to write a day to be a professional writer?"

So here's an answer to the question people who ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good year for me, productivity-wise. I've published four short stories, a novella, a novelette, a piece of flash fiction, and a novel. And I've written and delivered a whole bunch of stuff that's not coming out until next year ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of setting my house in order to start the big push on Steles of the Sky. Today is puttering and poking, tomorrow is outlining, and Monday is the commencement of hard writing--hopefully around 10,000-12,000 words a week. So I will be doing NaNoWriMo, sort of. In as much as I ever do NaNoWriMo. I mean, I need to write about 50K next ( Read more... )

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I went to church tonight.

This is not a usual occupation for me, but this was a special occasion. You see, Pete Seeger was being appreciated at the Cross Street AME Zion Church in Middletown, and it seemed like a good thing to do ( Read more... )

So here I am at Bradley International airport, awaiting my flight through Chicago (where apparently there is Weather and so we are Delayed) to Minneapolis. Where I plan to visit friends, play lousy guitar, and attend Fourth Street Fantasy Convention ( Read more... )

So I've got this friend who intimidates the hell out of me.

Okay, that's not exactly fair. I have a lot of friends who intimidate the hell out of me.

But there's this one particular friend who is older than I am, who has a formidable intellect, a prodigious recall, an encyclopedic knowledge of the most esoteric things, and is particularly ( Read more... )

So this morning for the dogwalk I was bored with all my exercise playlists, so I just hit shuffle.

This is what I got:

Tom Waits - 2:19
Were you drying your nails or waving goodbye?

The White Stripes - I'm Finding It Harder to be a Gentleman
Well I'm finding it hard to say
that I need you twenty times a day

Smithereens - Something New
It is ( Read more... )