But then I've been doing things around the house and I just feel too tired to think of much that's witty. So on with random updates: I did take advantage of the nice weather this past weekend to dig some drainage ditches in my backyard. With the clay and multitude of rocks this was not… Continue reading Again, long time no posts
Writing weekend
I returned home from my most recent writing weekend with mixed feelings.On the one hand I finished Company Car. I just need to proofread it for grammar and spelling then off it goes to F&SF magazine.On the other hand, which felt like a backhanded slap, I finally put my finger on what bothers me with… Continue reading Writing weekend
Editing Company Car
I put in a little more editing time on Company Car over the weekend. It's very close to done. There's two new conversations to insert, marked up changes on the MS to input, and a final proof read. If I can do well, I may even be able to work on something else before my… Continue reading Editing Company Car
Ad Astra 2007
The convention is over for another year. It feels too late to write a detailed con report as so many of my friends have.I shared a reading slot with John Mierau. They say three's a crowd, and three was the size of our crowd for the reading. Nice to have them too given we were… Continue reading Ad Astra 2007
Recent Reads
The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan FurstNineteen Eighty Four, by George OrwellFreakanomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Bleaksville
Finished reading Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four not long after seeing Death of a Salesman at a local theater. Two very bleak stories to be sure. Nineteen Eighty Four might edge out Death of a Salesman in that there is absolutely no hope of things getting better for anyone at the end of the book. At… Continue reading Bleaksville
Damn cool
Congratulations Karina!A friend of mine just found out she's on the final Nebula Award ballot. I always knew she was good. Now hopefully even more people will also know it.Here's her account of it.
Finally some progress
Just ahead of using it in a reading, I finished another editing pass on the short story "The Company Car."Does this mean the end of a long writing slump? I sure as hell hope so.
Recent reads
1776, by David McCullough Thank god for audiobooks. With all my current self-assigned tasks I'm not getting my book fix any other way. If you don't know who David McCullough is, he narrated Ken Burns's documentaries on the civil war and on baseball (if you don't know those, I can't help you). He's… Continue reading Recent reads
Ad Astra 2007 – tentative schedule
Here's what I'll be doing at this year's Ad Astra convention.Reading - The Mark and John (http://www.johnmierau.com/) show returns for another appearance.Urban Fantasy - What is the benefit of putting the magical in the mundane? What inspires an author to set stories in the world in which they live? Does it add or subtract to… Continue reading Ad Astra 2007 – tentative schedule
Dispatches from Obscurity 