Category: You crawl over there……
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Mocha Morning
I have coffee most mornings. This morning: mocha. It’s dark outside. Who turned off the lights? I have an exam this week, so I shan’t be around much, I’m studying spectroscopy and memorizing instrument components. Last night I started reading Mike Kupari’s Her Brother’s Keeper. So far? Homages to Drake, H Beam Piper, and Williamson.…
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One down, one to go
So the math homework that is due tomorrow is done. I have Physics to work on, and since tomorrow I am finishing up a lab experiment, I need to do that today. In today’s post, Brad Torgersen at the Mad Genius Club talks about writerly maxims, but one of them applies to my schoolwork. Know…
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Website Problems
Thanks to the folks who let me know the site was evidently down last evening. I’d realized there were problems around ten, and I was too tired to focus, let alone get on the phone with my hosting provider and try to figure out what the issue was. I’m working on it this morning. Not…
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Distress, Disruption, and the Artist
Pat Patterson asked this question elsewhere, and it got me thinking. “Authors and other artists: When things are really going poorly for you, how does that show up in your work? What about when things are going well?” My immediate answer to this was ‘when I’m sick, I can’t work’ which is entirely true, but…
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State of the Writer
Tired. Yesterday I spent literally all day running around with my kids, getting groceries, laundry done… all those little things that you must do when you’ve been away and on the road for eight days. Today, for some reason, I ache. I contemplated just writing in public, this morning. Starting where I’m at in the…
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The Final Stretch
I’ve been debating something these last few days, and with great reluctance, I’m taking a step I really didn’t want to. But the alternative is to risk harming my school work, and that’s not a choice, either. I’m going to step away from the blog until Finals. There will be daily content – I’m scheduling…
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Fast Forward a Day
It’s Monday, and I’m not up to doing what I had planned for this blogspace today. I will return tomorrow. In the meantime, you might enjoy this soothing picture of clouds. I’ll let you pick the elevator music… Oh, and I’ve been reading rather a lot of Pratchett.
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A Little Circus
#hugoawards #sadpuppies The guy who is just too damn obstinate, brave, hell maybe even stupid to accept he’s beaten. Who takes on odds fifty or fifty thousand to one and… Probably gets knocked flat. And gets up again and tries again. It’s a frontier thing, I think. Kowtowing to authority (no matter who that…
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Under a Big Tent
“And that is why the Sad Puppies campaign is important. In recent years, my rate of “discovery” of new cool authors has slowed to a crawl – and I’m not the only one. Scifi/fantasy literature sales are trending in the wrong direction at a meteoric rate. When I was 15, award-winning meant great fiction. Now…
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Look Elsewhere
My weekly post at Mad Genius Club is up. The camera battery was dead at the con last night, so sadly I don’t have any visuals for you today. I don’t even have much of a brain yet, that was a very long day… Look elsewhere for wit and erudition, ’cause I’m all out. The…
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Salad, School, and other Infinite Variables
So I was making a salad, for the Eat This While you Read That! post in which I feature the erudite and entertaining Chuck Gannon and his science fiction. If you want to find out more about the recipe and how salads can be infinite, click on over to the Otherwhere gazette. This post is…
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Following Yonder Star
From Curmudgeon’s Corner comes this, presented without commentary, make of it what you will. Our resident curmudgeon is spending most of his Christmas season alone, and is therefore a touch on the cranky side.