The top nine online genre stories from 2011 that you should read: “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders…
Life is Unjust.
Several days after my 29th birthday, I find that I am doing an unreasonable amount of pouting. I am pouting…
Losing Control
One of the first pieces of advice I ever got about novel writing from someone who knew what they were…
Borders becomes even more liminal; small presses and micropresses affected differently?
I was just talking to a science fiction small press publisher about the effect that this news may have on…
A few online SF/F recommendations with broad appeal, 2011
I’ve been reading like crazy because it’s award season. I wanted to share some links that I thought people might…
Writing and Mortality
A year or two ago, an article made the rounds which had collected ten pieces of writing advice from a…
E-readers e-rock
This summer, I bought a kindle. I bought it because I had a large amount of reading to do–submissions for…
Dissemination and Political Compromise
In comments at Pandagon, commenter BlackBloc writes: MIA [a musician] would not have been given a podium by the cultural…
Moods and Writing
Angry, tense, distracted, depressed, blocked, anxious… there are a lot of moods that can make writing difficult or impossible, or…
A sentence about a sentence I love.
“It hung in the air exactly the way bricks don’t.”–Hitchhikker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams There are sentences I…