About me, some stuff
I almost did Nanowrimo this year because I had an idea I wanted to work on, and I thought that maybe it would help in the novel-selling project to be working on a completely different project. Then I decided that was a stupid thought. I'm doing Nanosellmo instead. That isContinue Reading
Dan Savage provides a (slightly tongue-in-cheek) defense for the "sexy" Halloween costume. I don't actually disagree with him on most points — I just really hate those costumes. Jesus Ween is not, as you might suspect, an indication that Jesus has joined the band, or that the band has foundContinue Reading
Last night Paul and I went out with our recently-moved-to-San-Diego niece, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's sister. The last Saturday before Halloween and we were in the Gaslamp District, which is the historical/party district of San Diego. Sort of like Pioneer Square used to be, but bigger. (Not like theContinue Reading
I did more or less meet my goal of having the rewrite done by World Fantasy Convention. I say "more or less" because I was still monkeying with the climax yesterday, and I was hoping that the version called "done" for today would be an even more polished version. IContinue Reading
You just wrote a novel? What is it about? A werewolf. And…? There's a serial killer. And she's worried it might be her. Sure. Then what happens? She stops the serial killer. But she has to defy her newfound wolf pack to do it. So who is the serial killer?Continue Reading
So, I thought I had the werewolf novel all figured out, then I stepped away from it for 6 weeks of write-a-thoning. When I went back to take another look and get on the finding-an-agent thing again, I realized OMG! The protagonist doesn't want anything! She is totally protagging insufficiently!*Continue Reading
I got to #3 — You Miss Game Storylines That Were Actually Compelling — of 5 ways to tell you’re getting too old for video games and had an aha moment regarding the whole “video games as narrative art” question. Wait a second. Is it possible that those old gamesContinue Reading
The American novel is dead, did you know? And it has something to do with how English lit is taught in universities and why nobody wants to be an English major anymore: What Killed American Lit By Joseph Epstein The study of popular culture—courses in movies, science fiction, detective fiction,Continue Reading
Saw this movie last night and found it moderately entertaining. But it has serious plot holes and even more serious story flaws. And I suspect that these flaws are at least partly because Olivia Wilde’s character had to be The Chick.Continue Reading
I see it like this. There’s a bus full of schoolchildren, plus several bags of money earmarked for things the kids need, like repairs to the school and teachers and health care and food and such. The schoolchildren have two adult escorts. One of them is driving the bus. TheContinue Reading
Okay, so I managed to get myself together enough to submit an existing story, not the new one I’m not happy with. Two submissions. Two stories. Two thirds victory.Continue Reading
What?!? Final Friday already? All right, it’s time for an update. The second short story is still in edit mode. I still feel like it’s just missing something. Okay, tomorrow I must send it somewhere even if I still think it’s not all that. Who knows, maybe I’m not theContinue Reading
All right. It’s Sunday and the last couple of weeks were kind of a miserable failure write-a-thon wise. Naturally, I am duty-bound to tell you the whole pathetic story. For my life is nothing if not a big weepy pile of self-caused angst. My plan for this was: 1 weekContinue Reading