Well, I'm back for my final semester at Berkeley (and still freaking out a little about that fact). Within a little more than three months, I'll have written my 40-60 pg. honors thesis, completed my last classes as an undergraduate, and possibly put an end to my career as a student at Berkeley (there's a small chance I could come back for grad ( Read more... )

Day one • a song
Day two • a picture
Day three • a bookDay four • a site ( Read more... )

Oh man, I feel like someone just massacred my fictional children. Or like I just came home, only no one in my family or my hometown recognized me. THAT is how sledgehammer-y the ending of Julie E. Czerneda's Stratification trilogy is. I'm sitting here dazed and confused and with an odd aching emptiness that's all the more strange for the way that ( Read more... )

Oh goodness...I'm finally home, after an eight-hour delay at Heathrow Airport. I've got a lot of unpacking and general kicking-back-into-gear to do, after which I will do things like post photos and actually journal about the trip (and about those eight hours, four of which we spent sitting on the runway in a plane!). As it is, I'm glad to be home ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think that if I could be any one person in the world, aside from myself, I would be Julie E. Czerneda. And then other times, I think that even if I could be anyone, I'd be myself, because then I could continue to read and love Julie's work in the way that I do now, and she probably doesn't enjoy what she does the same way that I enjoy ( Read more... )

"Writers are a curious species; the writing life even more so. We tell ourselves stories, not the way regular people do, but with word-by-word effort. Dreams become insufficient. We're compelled to lock them down, polish them, hoard them on hard drives and paper. We dare to compare them to the work of others. Worst of all, after months and years of ( Read more... )

Found this while researching for Monday's decal course...from http://www.sff.net/people/Saswann/text/wb.htm

Aliens aren't human beingsStar Trek to the contrary, a good SF alien is not a neurotic human in makeup. An alien should be different, and different in a way that is ( Read more... )