One of the most sobering things I've learned from my years of editing at HFQ is this: what a writer intended and what an editor actually sees are two radically different things. Further, what an editor sees the first time they read something may not remotely match what they see the second time they see the same work ( Read more... )

Oh, this is awkward ( Read more... )

So, I hurt my shoulder and my elbow and my knee- it all happened the week before Thanksgiving. Not like hurt hurt, just the kind of thing that prompted me to take some time off taekwondo and weightlifting ( Read more... )

So, it looks like I've sold a sci-fi story to Ad Astra magazine. Woot! Woot ( Read more... )

It feels like I have done nothing but work on HFQ stuff since Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Battening down the hatches for the two days of snow and ice forecast for central Oklahoma. We managed to get a rick of firewood delivered just as the sleet started coming down! I helped unload and then moved about 1/4 of it to the porch and into the house. Ready for what comes ( Read more... )

Went to San Antonio via the train for Thanksgiving. Good times were had ( Read more... )

At WorldCon I bought Kim Stanley Robinson's book SHAMAN. Took me a while to read it as I am very intimidated by Kim Stanley Robinson ( Read more... )

July, August, and September were three months where writing was a priority. One of the things that happens during those months is that I push taekwondo down on the priority list, which roughly translated means that I pretty much stop going at all (especially in those last six weeks ( Read more... )

Well, it has been about a month since I posted anything. I went on a hiking trip and wanted to post some pictures, which was just one more thing to do, and I kept putting it off, and HFQ was due, and it was Halloween, then Day of the Dead, then some other stuff happened and now… here we are ( Read more... )