Finally got the first few words down on the short story I planned to work on at the end of last year. Went back and forth on setting (science fiction versus fantasy), which influenced how much information I would present about the main character's differences (autistic ( Read more... )

It's a while since I posted here. More than month's passed since World Fantasy in Columbus. Thankfully, I didn't experience any con crud, and I'll credit the good meals I ate with friends in various restaurants around the convention center, as well as the copious amounts of Blue Moon that I consumed in the hotel bar. I think I've avoided posting ( Read more... )

I don't know whether this post will run longer than the flash fiction piece I just submitted to New Scientist for its Forgotten Futures contest. It's likely, since I tend toward wordiness, but I'm OK if it happens as I wanted to note that (a) I had finished and revised the piece and (b) I wanted to talk about the process of writing and revising a ( Read more... )

I'm finally coming down from the rush that was the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio, last week. Enough to provide a coherent report of my impressions and what I gained from the time and money spent hanging out with friends in bars and restaurants (and attending the odd panel or two ( Read more... )

Another highlight from yesterday's yard work (beyond the muse trashing the current book outline) was the work she put into examining flash fiction ideas for the New Scientist contest and her determination to have me write a story about an autistic boy and zeppelins ( Read more... )

Jotted down some quick notes while the phones were quiet this morning and hopefully I'll get a new short story written in the next few days. Still not sure whether it will turn out scary or uplifting. Or a mash-up of the two ( Read more... )

Muse is up and running because of the work I've done the past few weeks on Sacrifices, but she latched onto an idea today after some comments I made to a friend's post. Jotted down the bare bones for a short story. Just the first few ideas--stuff about words and ideas, genesis and entropy--but there's not even a title hanging out a shingle yet. I' ( Read more... )

Just found out that my short story, "Ye Shall Eat in Haste," from Black Static, vol. 4, received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year 1.

New season starts tonight, and I can't think of a better time to start a new exercise regimen to coincide with the show's twenty episode/twenty week run.

Technically, any time is as good a time to start working out, eating right, and getting into better shape physically and mentally, but what would we do come New Year's or on our birthdays or on ( Read more... )

I just heard from a friend here at work that there's a new version of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, slated for release mid-February, and our conversation reminded me how writing is a sum that's greater than its parts. How outside influences form our imagination and channel any talent we possess down specific avenues. There's some Arabian Nights ( Read more... )