19:33 In the Charlotte airport on the way to Chattanooga. The flight was easy and I got the Giant Battle Scene written. One chapter left. # 19:41 Mental note: Next time, when packing lunch for the plane, don’t forget to pack a napkin as well. I have Wasabi Mayo on my face. # 20:46 And […]
The flight from La Guardia was completely without incident. We sat on the runway for a while, but I just read one of the stories I’m supposed to critique for the workshop. What? Would you really have finished them all before you got there? I didn’t think so. Plus! I finished the Giant Battle scene
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Nancy Fulda has an excellent post about her theory on Why Modern Readers are Less Tolerant of Description, which rings totally true to me. One hundred years ago, or even fifty years ago, the average reader did not travel widely and did not have access to full-color photographs or television. They had never seen pyramids,
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My flight was further delayed, but that was just fine. I sat down and this charming gentleman settled into the seat next to mine. I noticed that his reading material was Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light, from Small Beer Press. Naturally, this merited comment, as it made it almost certain that he was also coming from
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My flight to NYC is delayed. First from weather. Then from maintenance. Yes. Yes, I did run into someone in the airport this time, too. The woman I sat next to on the flight out from New York. Not nearly as exciting, but we’d had a nice coversation on the plane so I was happy
So a funny thing happened on my way to Wiscon. I mentioned that my flight was oversold and I volunteered to go on a later flight, right? The airline gave me a food voucher so I wandered over to the nearest kiosk. As I was standing in line, a woman said, “Mary Robinette Kowal!” I
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Or perhaps I will arrive in Madison later. The flight was oversold and they were offering a free round-trip ticket to volunteers so, I’m going to hang out in the airport and catch the 11:00 flight. Not sure when I get into Madison, but my first panel at WisCon isn’t until tomorrow and I’m sure
Not that I have anything terribly exciting to report. I just wanted you to know where I am. I’m supposed to arrive in Madison at 9:08.
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Rob and I are headed off to the airport. We’re flying to Chattanooga to spend Christmas with my family.
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Those of you who aren’t interested in the politics of Science-Fiction and Fantasy can skip this post. For the rest of you, I have some explaining to do. I’ve volunteered to help SFWA by chairing the Service to SFWA committee, which has been revamped to recruit, retain and reward volunteers. Any service organization, like SFWA,
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Eve’s Alexandria reviewed Twenty Epics and includes favorable comments about my story “Bound Man.” Here’s a snippet of the section about “Bound Man.” Other stories do in fact meet many of the criteria listed in my opening paragraph. Mary Robinette Kowal’s ‘Bound Man’ – one of the longer pieces in the anthology – goes for
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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All of my participant things were today and, considering how little prep I did because of the move, everything went amazingly well. I caught the train out of Penn Station this morning, rode up in comfort and met Joy Marchand at the station. She whisked me over to Readercon. I had to print out all
Look what I’ve got. The first Kowal Portable Typewriter and Adding Machine. I mentioned that I wanted to modify my computer to have some of the stylings of a portable typewriter. After a great deal of thought I decided to go with sticker applications on the keys due to the wee attachment points on the
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