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Accountability Post No. 1
Accountability Post No. 1
I’m going to post one of these “Accountability Posts” from time to time, to, uh… keep myself accountable to the writing goals I set for myself earlier. So here’s how I’m doing on each one:
Story per month.Well, I haven’t written a story in February, and my January story, “Flash Drive”, is still in progress. I submitted it to my writers’ groups, and got some fantastic feedback, but there are…
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The Weirdness of Emergent Behaviors While listening to the February 17th episode of This Week in Science podcast, I learned that the whooping crane,
Singularity The other day, I got to thinking about singularities, as one does. Not the so-called technological or sociological singularity of Ray Kurzweil…
Writing Goals for 2016
Writing Goals for 2016
Well, now that January is more than halfway over with, I suppose it’s time to come up with some goals for the new year, isn’t it? So. Here are some of my own goals for the new year:
I entered a “death pact” with a few friends. This pact is to write a short story a month for the entire year. My January story, “Flash Drive”, is mostly complete except for revising according to feedback, although it
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The Tale of the Lonely Spider (Click to embiggen this picture. It's huge.) We haven't yet gotten around to decorating our house for Christmas.
A Death in November
A Death in November
So. Back in 2005, when National Novel Writing Month rolled around in November, I wrote Fred Again, a novel about a police detective and a young woman facing Lovecraftian forces beyond their control, and winning. Sort of. There was a lot going on in that novel.
The title Fred Againdidn’t come from me, though. It came from my friend Nicole. You see, I announced in October that I had no idea what I…
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Ways to Spend Money, Redux
Ways to Spend Money, Redux
Hm, I’m noticing that it’s been awhile since I’ve posted here to my blog. It’s nobody’s fault, in particular, I’ve just been busy. And when I haven’t been busy, I’ve been… well, busy. Busy busy busy. I took a class in advanced PHP/SQL and that took up a LOT of time. And now that the class is over, I’m working on finishing up the final project for that class: basically, I’m rebooting Holidailies,…
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About that writing thing
About that writing thing
This past weekend I participated in an online intensive short story workshop taught by Mary Robinette Kowal, who’s written some of my favorite stories (including “Lady Astronaut of Mars“, which is a beautiful story and you really ought to read if you haven’t already). It was amazingly educational — I took pages and pages of notes — and very inspiring. I used to participate in the writers’…
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[A-Z] V is for Victory!
[A-Z] V is for Victory!
VICTORY!
Sort of.
So I went and wrote twenty-six blog entries, including this one, one for each letter of the alphabet. I did it out of order, and got scolded for that, but who says the alphabet has to be in alphabetical order? In library school I learned that order is what you make it. Is the Library of Congress catalog system in alphabetical order? It most certainly is not. I rest my case.
Next…
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[A-Z] E is for Episcopalian Some of my earliest memories are of going to church at St. Jude's Episcopal Church in Cupertino, California.
[A-Z] T is for Thumb
[A-Z] T is for Thumb
A brief entry for you tonight. Then two entries tomorrow. Then the [A-Z] blogging challenge will be over.
At any rate, have you ever had a hangnail? The kind that turns your finger an ugly red color when you accidentally snag it on something, or slip when you cut it off with a pair a nail clippers? I have. When I was a kid I was prone to them all the time for some reason.
Well, the past few days,…
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[A-Z] I is for Inconceivabilities There are number of things I can't really conceive of, and this, of course, presents a problem in my writing.
[A-Z] J is for Jalapeño Okay, I know these aren't Jalapeño peppers. They're Thai peppers, which are worse. And this story is about Thai food and Thai peppers and pain.
[A-Z] Y is for Yaar! So, every year there is the Northern California Pirate Festival over in Vallejo. I've never been, but I hear it's good fun.
[A-Z] U is for Ukulele
[A-Z] U is for Ukulele
I’m behind on the A-Z blogging challenge. Woefully so. Partially because I’ve been busy; sometimes I write my blog posts during my breaks at work, but lately work has been so busy that I haven’t been able to take breaks. And my evenings have been busy as well, what with my writers’ group and other commitments (that television won’t watch itself, after all). Plus, I just haven’t been sure what to…
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[A-Z] S is for Short and Sweet I got nothin' for you tonight just because I'm tired, I have a headache, and am beset by kobolds.
[A-Z] Z is for Zoology Etc. When I first started college at UC Davis, my plan was actually not to study Philosophy or English or any of the liberal arts at all.