I've been thinking of checking out #FutureChat on twitter for a while now. Today, I was finally at my computer during the chat. I'm sorry to say I was disappointed ( Read more... )

All of you out there in the swathe of Sandy, stay safe!

In the meantime, those who follow me closely on Twitter probably heard a conversation about forming a League of Extraordinary Pantsers. It occurred to me that my current publicity photo is a little...sedate...for that. Don't get me wrong, I still love this photo, but it doesn't have the right ( Read more... )

So, @BryanThomasS originally said he couldn't do a chat on Halloween, and he was suggesting a roundtable on horror.  But there's so much more to Halloween than horror (even if we ignore that it's Samhain).  There are many aspects of magic (and even death) that are beautiful, inspiring, or mysterious instead of merely horrible or panic-inducing.  So ( Read more... )

sly snake
slithering soft
wending, winding, twining
hungry, hears a happy hopping
he strikes!

#poetwist (sly) #cinquain

Every day, @poetwist tweets a challenge word. Today's was "sly".

The case is open, if you want to encourage me to write more poetry here.

And I love comments! I hope to hear from you.

I have a beautiful old Victorian house that had been in a state of deferred maintenance when I got it, and haven't had money to fix all the things that it needs, much less bring it to a modern state of insulation. So when the temperature plummets suddenly, the furnace lags behind, and it's not warm inside. It's far from freezing, but it's not ( Read more... )

RT @scifichat: Next #scifichat Fri. Dec. 11, 2-4 pm ET. We'll create shared world for anthology from Flying Pen Press! #Authors invited!One of my first discoveries when I found Twitter was Debbi Ohi's tweet, leading to her blog post about Twitter chats for writers. One of these is #scifichat, which is 1-3 p.m. on Fridays my local time (basically, ( Read more... )

And got this review from @Dragonflae:

Her #haiku 's spin off and float away into the sun. Bright yellow, this poet @Wyld_Dandelyon #followfriday

In a week when no one commented on my new chapter of Fireborn, this was particularly cheering!

Now, I have to reread the sf-horror script that's due tomorrow and send it off, and write something for # ( Read more... )

Coyote chasing ~
Rabbit scoots into the brambles, smiling ~
Coyote laughs, though his belly is empty ~
He can buy fast food!

Coyote, he rocks! ~
He makes all the mistakes first ~
So I don't have to!

Wind flows gently ~
The sky starts to pale ~
Slowly, slowly, color starts to return ~
Then suddenly, dawn wakes a double rainbow.

In regular life, I got ( Read more... )

It's been a mostly-annoying day, though I did get some writing done, and a whole raft of errands, including unscheduled ones.


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I've been reading about branding, and marketing, and growing your audience, and right now twitter seems to be "where it's at", so I thought I should try it. I haven't been there long, so I don't have any idea if this will work to promote my longer writings yet, but I'm having fun. One of the things I read is that you need to establish a presence ( Read more... )