Monthly Archives: July 2006

Never Seen Before

7/20/2006 – 11:56 am

You don’t really want to hear me blather today, do you? I thought I’d dig up some photos that have never seen the light of day and post those instead. Pictures are nice. With one sentence explanations. Jet lag and gazpacho in Madrid. Tired of furniture shopping in Madison. With bleached hair and beard. Posing [...]

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You’ll Never Guess Who He Picked

7/19/2006 – 2:14 pm

ESPN’s Bill Simmons writes a great article on picking an English Premier League team to support. He successfully susses out the bandwagon potential but still manages to include the Arse, Chelski, and Liverpool in his top six. You’ve GOT to read the recap of Tottenham though. It’s spot on, although surprisingly he fails to mentions [...]

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Is It Morning Already?

7/19/2006 – 9:33 am

Via Bill Shunn: Space Invaders recreated by stop-motion animation of people sitting in auditorium seats. It’s what the Internet was made for. Finished reading the novelete “Penultima Thule” in this month’s F&SF by Chris Willrich and was of two minds about it. Well, probably more like three or four minds about it. There’s a lot [...]

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More Unexpected Output

7/19/2006 – 12:40 am

Another 2800 words last night in about three hours. I don’t think I can write much faster than that if my life depended on it. Longer maybe, but not faster. I’m letting my muse have her way with me. What I wrote tonight is more or less the first chapter of a novel I didn’t [...]

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If You Don’t Surf Where I Surf

7/18/2006 – 9:49 am

A couple things I found interesting in my morning blog roll that I wanted to repeat here. Via Jed Hartman: Duotrope’s market finder/submission tracker. For when Ralan’s just isn’t enough. Now that I’m slowly but surely swinging back to writing whatever the hell I feel like, I really need to research other markets that are [...]

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…and the Inevitable Deluge.

7/17/2006 – 3:41 pm

Maybe blogging about writer’s block is the best way to rid myself of it. Just cranked out 2500 words in less than three hours, finishing the story “Sleeping Weather.” 800+ words an hour? I’ll take it. Unquestionably the weirdest story I’ve ever written, at least according to me. Whether it’s any good remains to be [...]

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At Least I Make Myself Laugh

7/17/2006 – 10:36 am

I forgot to mention that I gave my notice at work last week. Eight weeks, which is more than generous, but should give them time to hopefully find a replacement and hire him/her before I leave so we can do some training. Anyway, this conversation made me laugh uproariously at my own joke. Receptionist: That [...]

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Blocked, sort of…

7/17/2006 – 9:35 am

I haven’t written much for the better part of two weeks now. I sit down, start, stop, start, play a game of solitaire, repeat. There are a couple hurdles. One, I’m not feeling great. I don’t know whether I’ve got a bug or what but sleep is coming over me something fierce. I got a [...]

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Whew!

7/14/2006 – 9:20 am

Just finished chapter 37 in Don Quixote and I have to admit, my interest flagged during the long digression of “The Novel of the Man with the Ill-Advised Curiosity.” The novel itself (of two friends, one of whom needlessly charges the other with testing his virtuous wife’s fidelity) and the unlikely reunification of two sets [...]

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Cory Docotorow’s Nice Sentence

7/13/2006 – 10:25 am

“An SF writer’s biggest problem is obscurity, not piracy.” –Cory Doctorow Read the whole article about copyright, e-rights, and pirating on Locus online. In a word, yep.

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