Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I finished another review tonight, of Richard Dansky’s Firefly Rain. It still took me a while to write, but it came significantly easier than the last one. If I can stay in the habit of writing these regularly I’m sure they will come easier and easier with time.
We had Jennifer over tonight for a writing [...]
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I’ve decided to start writing book reviews again. I’ve been working for the last couple days on a review of Tanith Lee’s Indigara with minimal success; my review skills felt very rusty. When I complained to Reesa, she responded without a moment’s hesitation, “have you reread your old reviews?”
I had not. I did, and within [...]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
What is an author’s responsibility to his readers? I just opened a discussion of this topic on Words Words Words.
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I wrote a little ramble on unreality in world building over on
Friday, February 8th, 2008
My poem “a 24th-century reflection on emptiness” will appear in Aberrant Dreams in 2008. Hooray for me!
I will post again when I know a more exact publication date.
It’s been a few years since I’ve had the chance to see my poetry published. Hopefully the next time I won’t have to wait as long. :)
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
My punalua, Steven Brust, has just released his Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom, free for download under a creative commons license.
This isn’t my writing, but I put a bunch of hours into getting this ready for public consumption and I am super-excited to finally be able to share it with the world. I [...]
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The LJ feed for Words Words Words is currently in the Top 300 LJ Syndicated feeds with 251 readers. This ties us with Al Jazeera and ‘The Daily Puppy’. It’s nice to know we’re at least as cool as puppies.
Since we’ve just enabled crossposting of the feed to Steve’s LJ I suspect this number will [...]