Archive for April, 2010
Just a Draft: Clarion Part Four
April 12th 2010 at 1:00 pm
A new chapter of It’s All Just A Draft is up: Clarion Part Four. This section details my attending the Clarion SF/F workshop. Usually these go up in the morning, but one of the twins has a fever and is home for the day, so my usual schedule is somewhat in flux. The files are [...]
That s*&t’s the s*&t
April 12th 2010 at 10:58 am
I’m always intrigued at non-geek reads of things people are all riled up about in my tech geek circles. I was amused by an interaction at a gas station halfway between Lansing and Ann Arbor on my home after teaching a couple workshops at Rally of Writers on Saturday. On seeing my iPhone wallet case [...]
24 hour video of airplane traffic across the world
April 9th 2010 at 1:12 pm
I find this to be so very visually mesmerizing…
Things I’ve looked up in the last 24 hours
April 8th 2010 at 4:35 pm
Things I’ve researched in the last 24 hours: Interior shots of the Zepellin NT Synonyms for the word large The thousand most common last names in the US today Various endangered bird species Pictures of the largest living horse alive today Various poison speeds and reactions Northwest Passage pictures (help reframe my old notes) and [...]
Recovery time
April 8th 2010 at 1:28 am
It used to be that after finishing one novel, I’d spend a few weeks recovering from the mad, caffeine-fueled dash to the finish of the last. My ‘multiple projects’ method now seems to have blunted that. I’d stopped work on Arctic Rising for the last stretch of The All Tree and while doing some edits [...]
Script kiddy
April 6th 2010 at 5:09 pm
I just gave Thalia my old original iBook to play with while in my office. She’s very much interested in my MacBook Pro, so I thought I could divert her. It worked. She’s been smashing on the keys for a while, but I think she’s wondering when that will produce a result. The twins both [...]
It’s Just a Draft: Clarion Part Three
April 5th 2010 at 1:31 pm
A new chapter of It’s All Just A Draft is up: Clarion Part Three. This section details my attending the Clarion SF/F workshop. There is one more chapter about Clarion after this. Usually these go up in the morning, but one of the twins has a fever and is home for the day, so my [...]
Passive aggressive iPad reporting
April 2nd 2010 at 3:32 pm
Journalists covering the imminent Apple iPad launch are repeating a concept I’ve seen used fairly frequently of late: that it you put an Apple logo on something it will sell like crazy, no matter what, because of a ‘reality distortion zone’ or ‘fanboys’ or… just because. Whether the iPad succeeds or not, who knows, but [...]
Guest Blog by Mark Terry: “It’s All Science Fiction, Right?”
April 2nd 2010 at 8:36 am
Mark Terry is a fellow midwest author who writes thrillers. In particular I enjoyed The Devil’s Pitchfork, which reminded me of early Clive Cussler novels. I met Mark via his brother, Peter, who used to work with me at the college back in the days when I had a dayjob. As an author, you always [...]
Revisions complete
April 1st 2010 at 1:36 pm
Over the last week I’ve been focused on revisions to the exclusion of much else (blogging/reading/etc). The Executioness, a novella I’ll talk more about soon, got its third draft and a very close, line by line read. Got rid of a lot of quirks and trip-ups. The All Tree then got polished and fixed on [...]
