I’m feeling a lot of push from my muse to write, which is good overall (except when I get cranky with a friend or loved one who ‘interrupts’ her). I’ve got a couple reviews in the works, various ideas kicking around in my head, a coauthor eager to continue work on Honeycutt Tales and the germ [...]
February has not been a great month for writing as far as putting words on a page. I’ve been under a lot of stresses, including financial ones and the quest for a place to live. I haven’t stalled out completely, which is a relief, but it’s been hard to find the energy to put towards [...]
It happens in the life of any writer, so it had to happen to me eventually: A market to which I sold a poem has died before I got published or paid by them. Aberrant Dreams, who previously published my poem “a 24th-century reflection on emptiness” in 2008, and later that year accepted my poem [...]
I just finished a review of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel FlashForward. Since I found the recent TV series of the same name so maddening, I could not help but bring my thoughts on both interpretations of the FlashForward concept together in the review. I’ll send it in to SFSite later tonight after a bit of [...]
I just finished the first draft of a new erotic short story:
“Lifting the Veil”
Microsoft Word wordcount: 3,108 words
I’ve sent the short story to a few friends and readers in the hope I get some feedback. After I sleep a bit, I plan to polish it up and send it to an erotic SF anthology, just [...]
I’ve agreed to review sex toys for sextoy.com. I’ll be posting the reviews here on my blog. I won’t be getting paid but I’ll be getting free sex toys and another excuse to write about sex, which will hopefully encourage me to put more time in on my other pr0ntastic writing. In return, the site [...]
On a private mailing list for my writers’ group, Amul Kumar recently asked, “What’s been getting in your way?” And it’s an interesting question to contemplate. One thing he writes: “I’ve created all these discrete spaces, online and at home, which were supposed to help me focus on the different kinds of productivity that I wanted to [...]