Steve and Alethea had spent the night at our house. We all spent a liesurely morning and opted not to return to Chattacon. I know that is shocking, especially since there was a puppet show on the schedule, but somehow the muffins that Mom made seemed more enticing. After Chattacon ended, Jason and Justin, of […]
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I had a great time hanging out with Steve Savile, Alethea Kontis, Jason Sizemore, Justin Stewart and Shane Berryhill. After we were finished with panels, we came back to Woodthrush Woods and shot the breeze until the wee hours of the morning.
My flight to Chattanooga was cancelled due to bad weather in Chicago. They had rescheduled me for tomorrow on a 6 am flight, which would have put me back too late to be on the panel at Chattacon. I explained my dilemma, and American rerouted me onto a Continental flight to Atlanta. I’ll have to
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Since I’m spending the day travelling back to Chattanooga, I suggest that you read The Evil Robot Monkey Chronicles for amusement.
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I spent today painting the set. Then I came into town to meet up with some folks. Details later, when I’m not so tired.
I got to watch a rehearsal of Arabian Nights today. The puppets look fabulous and the actors are doing a really good job. Everyone says nice things about the set, but I naturally have some concerns. I’ll get to talk to the TD tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve just come back from a very nice dinner with
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I’m sitting in the Chattanooga airport on my way to New Jersey. McCarter Theater is bringing me up to talk about the Arabian Nights set. It’s built, thank goodness, but there are some questions so Chris Parks, the director, wants me to come watch a rehearsal and meet with the TD. I’ll come back to
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Steve Savile went through Waiting For Rain and really helped me see the pacing problems and the places where my main character wasn’t active enough. Not to mention some clarity issues. He read it and just shouted (not really) questions at me as they occurred to him. I would fix the passage in question and
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Yeah. So, I don’t know what I was thinking when I thought I would drive home every night to Chattanooga. We’re having way too much fun. It’s 2 a.m. and we’re just going to bed. We watched the newest Dr. Who episode. May I say, I am such a geek. I was a huuuuge Dr.
I’m tired and I’m having fun. My writing brain is getting a good swift charge from the company at hand.
I’m at a Codex writer’s mini-conference in Murfreesboro, TN this weekend. I had planned on driving back to Chattanooga tonight, but several of the other writers are having horrible travel karma. My share of the travel karma, was fairly mild. I arrived, got out of the car to say “hello” and the door swung shut
Today, besides writing more of the Landon Manor story, I also did some serious editing of Waiting for Rain. I’ve taken it from 9900 words to 8875. That’s feeling like a much more reasonable length.
Snuggle up with the winter issue of Shimmer and sink into the heat of Alabama with Sell Your Soul to the Devil Blues by Tom Pendergrass, pick the brain of multiple Hugo-award winning editor Ellen Datlow, and listen to the Silent Folk in Jay Lake’s The Black Back-Lands. There’s more: the nursing home adventures in
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I began work on a new short with the working title The Case of Landon Manor. It’s a supernatural mystery set in 1924. My main character is a glamorous young heiress, who also happens to be a medium. I’m 2000 words into it and having a lot of fun. Here’s the first beginning, although that’s
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