Chapter 2

April 30th 2004 at 1:25 am

…as I suspected and somewhat hoped when I sprung this theoretical approach on my critiquers, chapter 2 would apparently work better if I had my starship become a giant living rock boosting spider.
To understand the above sentence takes about 4-6 thousand words.

Still Workshopping It

April 27th 2004 at 5:00 pm

Well no one has gotten sick this year yet, and we’re all clipping along with critiques and evening bull sessions. Sadly we thought more local eateries would be open, but that isn’t the case.
Just talked to the cross cultural contact in Columbus to verify some info about my conference call for tomorrow for a person […]

Workshopping It

April 25th 2004 at 4:28 pm

I’m here on Kelly’s Island with many other writers critiquing novels, and unlike last year, this year I’m hale and healthy. Em and I signed on the house, and so we’re now legally house owners (although right now we’re landlords, as we won’t be moving in for a month yet).
So far Paul Melko has gotten […]

House and Blue Heaven

April 23rd 2004 at 11:56 am

I’m leaving work early today to go close and sign on our house.
We have a house! Woo hoo:

We’ll actually be moving June 7-15.
Right after that Emily and I are taking off to go to Paul Melko’s house and enjoy a cook out with other arriving members of the Blue Heaven workshop. Tomorrow morning I leave […]

Email

April 22nd 2004 at 8:58 am

“It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO (total cost of ownership), our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties,” the e-mail said. “Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, (but) it would […]

iTunes Purchase List

April 22nd 2004 at 12:00 am

Collected me a few songs for the next week or so of writing on iTunes:
Where the Hood At by DMX (because without DMX, how can I get pumped up, and this song in particular is fucking tight).
Superbeast by Rob Zombie (Rob’s my man. SF hard metal with rap overtones.)
Call of the by Zombie Rob Zombie […]

Elite… Delete…

April 21st 2004 at 4:40 pm

In the inbox from ‘Elite Online Literary Agency’:
My agency is seeking to establish its presence within the SFWA community, and I am writing to ask you to consider joining my Yahoo! group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EliteOnline.
Correspondence will be limited to five e-mail messages per month or less. This is not a discussion group — this is […]

Low Down Dirty Shame

April 21st 2004 at 2:40 pm

What the hell kind justification did the prison officials have to do this: (from boingboing.net)
The NYT has reported, twice, on the prison creative writing program whose student won a Silver PEN award for First Amendment Writing and was rewarded by having all of her — and her classmates’ — work erased by the prison […]

Ben & Jerry’s

April 21st 2004 at 2:22 pm

This Tuesday is ‘free cone day’ at Ben & Jerry’s. Participants will have a chance to win iTunes songs.

No More Dozois

April 20th 2004 at 9:54 pm

Locus Online reports that Gardner is stepping down from the helm of Asimovs.
I’m sure this will spread out online and be analyzed to death shortly. I will be curious to see where Sheila William’s leadership heads the magazine.