In case any non-writers out there have ever wondered what a rejection slip looks like, here is a link to the best rejection slip I ever received (from Asimov’s last April 2005): See the rejection slip
For the third night in a row, I have stuck to my new writing regimen, and it is working out well. I had another good session tonight. I’d scheduled two hours (between 7 – 9 PM) to write and hoped to get through two more sections of “The Graveyard Shift”. I got through both sections,…
So it’s lunchtime and I’m reading Herovit’s World (wholely contained within The Passage of the Light and I cannot for the life of me stop laughing. Outloudly, vocally, loudly. It just keeps coming with each paragraph. This has to be one of the funniest books ever written, and yet I hesitate to quote passages because…
So you may have notice I have (temporarily?) changed the style of this blog. Up until now, I’d been using the Bloggish style (S2) which I really liked. However, when I came in this morning, I noticed that the layering was not working properly. I assume that someone edited the underlying style and screwed something…
It was two years ago today (Valentine’s Day) that I gave up caffine and I have been caffine free ever since.
I did 40 pushups tonight and for some reason, it was far easier than the last time I actually hit 40. Last night, for instancfe, I was only able to do 35 and the night before, I did 37 or 38 and was wiped out. But just now, I did 40 pushups quick (and for…
T-minus 17 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes to Vegas and counting…
Title: “46 Directions, None of Them North” Author: Deborah Coates Source: Asimov’s Science Fiction (March 2006) I liked this story. First of all, it is a story published in a science fiction magazine that really doesn’t have anything to do with science fiction. Instead, it is a somewhat touching story of a 16 year old…
I had planned to write from 7-8 PM tonight and ended up writing an additional twenty minutes. I completed sections three and four of “The Graveyard Shift” doing about 2,200 words in 80 minutes. I like what I’ve got so far. The forth section completes the first “part” of the story, which now stands at…
I received the March 2006 issue of Scientific American today, which now puts me (I’m embarrassed to say this) nine months behind! That’s farther behind than I’ve ever fallen before, and I don’t honestly know if I will catch up. I’m going to give the March issue a shot just as soon as I find…