We, as a family, talk to the cats in Chez Garen. Not a lot, and not seriously, but it seems like the thing to do. Maybe we just have loud mewing cats, but it’s awkward after a point to not talk to them, and they out number us and can exact retribution on our sleep schedules, so we’re just playing it safe.

Most of my conversations with them are ( Read more... )

I’m editing a story for Critical Futures this week, and I’m re-encountering an old problem with this novella.

There are some characters without specified genders, it’s important to their characterization, and I’m pretty wed to it, though I did slip up and use some he/she in the first drafts, which I’ve since edited out.

Interestingly, or maybe ( Read more... )

Sometimes the biggest jobs are the easiest. Last night I got inspired to make a sort of major change to my website: give up the “plain old blog” look and build a more intense “full featured-type” site. I thought this would be a good afternoon project for the weekend, so I made a list, mocked something up, and went to bed.

And then I got up this ( Read more... )