%$#&!

February 28th 2005 at 10:39 pm

This month I’ve been ripping out dead stuff out of the 20,000 words I’d written on Ragamuffin so far, and been doing some serious plotting and outlining and some research to fill in where I wanted to go as I wrote it. As of now we’re finally done, and I have 9,621 words.
Yeesh.
Since starting the […]

I Am Not a Serial Killer

February 28th 2005 at 1:05 pm

Did anyone watch Law and Order on NBC last night (it’s one of the few channels besides PBS and the ‘God’ channel we get in the house. Emily and I wonder if it will become the ‘all Law and Order all the time’ channel)? The basic premise was that a frustrated wannabe author writes a […]

Moons Like Great White Whales

February 28th 2005 at 11:41 am

Charles Coleman Finlay has a story up at Strange Horizons called Moons Like Great Whales:

“You love the way we’re alone together, with whole worlds to ourselves. Whenever you start thinking about colonists following after us, changing the landscapes we’ve shared, you always get depressed.”

On Writing

February 28th 2005 at 9:57 am

Charles Stross talks about why he writes:

Most normal kids decide they want to be a football star or a ballerina at some time; a few of them are stubborn enough that they actually persist with the ball-kicking or dancing for years after their less fixated peers give up on it, and get good enough to […]