Reason for silence = writing. It's mostly good.

I was walking about Bath yesterday afternoon for the purposes of fresh air, exercise and quietly thinking about a problem. The nature of the light, the colour of the leaves and the act of exploring reminded me of the state I was in on the way up I-95 to Martha's Vineyard. Both excited and somewhat trepidatious about meeting people and learning ( Read more... )

Buy me and stop one.

Want to save LJ? Curate the damn conversations. Drivebys are for Tumblr.

Gibson last night started a bit ho-hum, but mutated into a stormer. He talked of 'assuming the position' such that the thing, the writing monster, would put in an appearance. William Gibson would come back later to perform editing on what the writing monster had left behind. ( Read more... )

A number of months ago I was idly considering a story in which Jolly Dutch Anarchist Astronauts pitch up on a random asteroid with spacegoing versions of a RepRap and fusion reactor in order to hollow it out and bootstrap themselves an orbital habitat.

It was to have been an extended ramble on the nature of gezellig because I had recently come ( Read more... )

http://wizardstowerpress.com/2010/coming-soon-dark-spires/

... will also include a story from JH-R. Which is nice.

The not-traditional-at-all-but-works-for-me method of generating character names is to keep an eye on your spam folder. Thus should I ever need the name of a dodgy lawyer for a Noird-style tale, a Frank Bongani is in the frame ( Read more... )

Travelling Pete was the one who discovered it ( Read more... )

I say old chap. Where's my PSP22 ( Read more... )

JHR (Last year).

Charlie Brooker.

G(r)od I'm good.