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Duck And Cover
See, the crap that's been going on around here is the reason I'm afraid to express myself openly on the Internets. -
Parsing
A logician is used to arranging delimiters as befits the order they represent. Likewise a software engineer. Quote marks enclose the quoted text. A comma separates the quote-mark-enclosed quoted text from other elements of the statement.
So I, when composing in written English, have great difficulty tucking a comma just inside the ending ( Read more... ) -
prayer
O, Fate, please tell me it was part of Your plan to leave me fallow so long. I faithfully await my return to Your service. O, and could You stop being such a Bitch? Seriously. -
(Untitled)
For the first time in months, my slush count is greater than zero. Am celebrating with a cup of good tea. -
Food for Thought
Every writer, every once in a while, must stop, take a good look around, and ask him- or herself, "Why am I in the kitchen?" -
Writing Skiffy Right Now
You can't write plausible near-future sci-fi any more. The writing and publishing process are so slow, and the pace of technology so fast, that any idea a writer can come up with is more likely to be old news than futurism by the time it sees print.
Of course, while I was typing that, I'll bet a new technology development occurred which will ( Read more... ) -
Fedfic
Randall Munroe, the author of xkcd, apparently sick of financial news, put up a goofy short story on his blog. An excerpt:
"Bernanke, trying not to slip in the patches of blood on the floor, struggled with Greenspan. The older man moved like a snake that moved like a former Fed Chairman who moved like a ninja. At last, Bernanke got a solid grip ( Read more... ) -
Writhings is not a word
No document can contain the tortured writhings of a human soul. Writers are all trying desperately to do that, but what of it? Can any of them succeed? Does the degree to which they succeed determine their level of skill? Even if one could encode it, could anyone receive it? -
Every day
The one thing that gives me the most hope right now is that I am actually in compliance with Yog's first imperative: Write Every Day. I do. I write every day. Every morning I start a new datestamped scratch document in Google Docs, and periodically throughout the day, through whatever browser is handy, I squeeze my head out onto the page. And ( Read more... ) -
Je me suis ouverte
Delerium Archives are different stuff than recent Delerium. I like 'em both, but they're for different things.