Yesterday I was having trouble with my blog, which are still a mystery. Basically, my RSS feed looks fine everywhere except Google Reader. While trying to figure out which plugin was causing that, I did a series of test posts, about 30 of them and was tossing a single line of fiction into each by […]
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One of the links that I posted as something to consider was A Mist of Vague Cliches by K. Tempest Bradford. Now, Tempest and I were in a writing group together and the generic European setting was one of her pet peeves. So, when I started work on this story “On the Edge of Dying”
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I’m going to start today by just linking to things I find helpful or thought-provoking. Excellent article on Describing Characters of Color by N. K. Jemison Open Letter to the SF community by the Carl Brandon Society Context by David Levine A Mist of Vague Cliches by K. Tempest Bradford
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So, I’m afraid you’ll have to endure me doing a whole bunch of test posts to see if I can figure out if any plug-in is interfering. Sorry about that.
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I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about Justine Larbalestier’s post, “Why my protagonists aren’t white” and the fellow said that he rarely describes his characters, unless it’s important, so that the reader is free to imagine them at will. I can understand this choice, because I’ve done it myself and for the
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I was talking with a friend about racism and he brought up a thing I’d never thought about, in terms of why people go all frothy when told that they’ve done something racist. For many people, especially those who grew up during segregation, being racist frequently was actively pursued and something that people were proud
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Here are the beautiful daughters of Ken and Jen Scholes. Rachel (5 lbs 3 oz.) and Lizzie (5lbs 6 oz.) were delivered this morning and all are doing well. I’m so happy for my friends and can’t wait to meet the young ladies. Through the magic of wireless, Ken snapped a photo of the girls
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I’ve got some updates to my website which I hope will make it easier to navigate. Largely this consists of shifting the navigation to the top and reserving the sidebar for things which I hope will be of interest. I’m still sorting out what to put over there, so expect things to change as I
This week is International Blog Against Racism Week and I spent yesterday reading about racism, but not writing anything because I felt like I didn’t have anything to add to the conversation. After all, as a white person, race doesn’t affect me. Except that’s completely false. Race affects me every day. When I go to
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While looking up a detail about period pianos for Chapter Four of Glamour in Glass, I chanced across a comparison of a 19th century piano and a modern piano both playing the same piece, which was eye-opening in terms of the difference in sound. There’s no reason to convey that in the novel, but it’s
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Back in 1985, Leonard Nimoy hosted a show on Nicklodeon called Lights, Camera, Action. In this clip he talks about homemade special effects. via Props
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. . I’m heading up to Montreal for Anticipation, the 2009 WorldCon. Here is my convention schedule. Thursday Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and Writing 14:00, P-513B What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writing short-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networking or a new way to write? Can tweets
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I’m home from Orlando although I desperately wanted to stay longer. While I pack boxes for the Big Move, here’s another of my favorites from the Handmade Puppet Dreams series. The Whole World and You by Tally Hall, directed by Frankie Cordero