I Believed a Quote That Wasn’t True
The author reflects on a misundertood quote and how it shaped him as a writer.
UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn
An update on A+ content, description and changes to metadata as well as short stories moving things forward
Of Butchery and Meta Data
He found plenty of references to surprises, shocks, twists, and endings that readers hadn’t seen coming. That suggests a very different kind of book.
Persistence and Determination or How Me and My Writer Friends Keep at It
This idea that “nothing in this world can take the place of persistence” has sustained me from the wilderness of Columbus, Ohio, to the tall buildings of Chicago, and the subway-fed boroughs of NYC and all the places I’ve lived between.
ReaderCon 33 and Sounding like Monty Python
ReaderCon 33 Yes, I did go to ReaderCon 33. It’s a convention less about readers than what they read. As the Con puts it: Although Readercon is modeled on general “science fiction conventions,” we feature a near-total focus on the written word. a place where “We support the subversive notion that thinking is fun.” — […]
When that Feeling Something’s Wrong Keeps Growing
I had a breakthrough. But not until suffering through the terror I might have wasted the past two-plus years.
Libraries, Levels, and the Readercon
For kicks and giggles last week, I checked World Catalogue again. The book is now in 11 libraries!
808,483, but Who’s Counting?
So, I stopped the blind stabs of opening files and hopeful keyword searches and used Scrivener to build an Index
Busy with Fun and Not Fun Stuff
Lots of potential here: the parallels between narcotic use and necromancy are interesting, the language is often Chandler-esque in a good way, and it delves into some interesting psychological territory.
“However….”
