Oh yes. New story. For the call for the Mundane SF issue of Interzone, because while I don’t think SF needs to be Mundane, it’s after all just a set of constraints. I learnt stuff from full tonal writing fugues, I learned stuff from composing using serialist procedures, I learned stuff composing with twelve-sided...
Read more →Hey all. The art show for Rudy Rucker’s new novel, Postsingular, is happening on November 9th-11th at the amusingly named Live Worms Gallery. He’ll be there all weekend, but will be joined by Kage Baker for readings on the Saturday, in the late afternoon, for those of you over in San Francisco. Durn ocean....
Read more →Jade Park has tagged me in her response to the 5 writing strengths Meme, where writers list five things that they know are their writing strengths. A few years ago, this might have been much harder for me. Drafting was a lot like shooting a rifle off into the dark, trying to hit things....
Read more →Whew! I finally got some proofreading done. I’m now about to send four five stories out. Here are the titles (with the original titles included for those who have read or critted them in the past): “Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands” (originally “The Crystal Methuselah,” 2006) “Iblis’ Devotion”(originally “Iblis’ Desire,” 2006) “Lester Young...
Read more →Anyone have a good site or book to recommend me? I need a little more background than I have for a story idea (and just knowing more would be nice anyhow, even if the story doesn’t pan out). Thanks!
Read more →Lime was out of town last night, visiting her folks, and I ended up proofreading one story then, and another today. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s almost 25,000 words of fiction I was working with. It was a lot. The good news is that with only a few changes, two...
Read more →Well, I’ve just completed a pretty radical redraft of a story. (Critters, it was “Professor Whitney’s Resignation” when you saw it.) The original couple of drafts (in 2000 and 2006) were in 1st person POV, and then I redrafted the story again in epistolary form last week. That just wasn’t cutting it, though it...
Read more →William Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy’s diaries have been published. They are none too interesting. I had to read on in undergrad, perhaps because we were reading William Wordsworth, it was a Nineteenth-Century Life Writing course, and the idea of a diary (by a woman, no less) filled in slots in the course both in terms...
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