Looking forward to the latest reading of Dispensing Justice at AAAWG tonight. It’s been a couple of weeks vacation from writing (more or less), and it feels good to be making progress again.

First day of NASFIC 2010 is wrapping up here in Raleigh NC.  It’s been very hot and humid.  Lucky for the air conditioning.  Already run into Walter Hunt (who Merideth and I met at NASFIC 2007 in St. Louis) and Emily,  a friend of Merideth’s who we also first met at NASFIC 2007.

Anyone else here that I know?

Blackadder, I mean Rowan Atkinson, makes a great Doctor Who. Read the rest of this entry »

Space Patrol Orion, or Raumpatrouille Orion, is some 1966 German SF TV goodness.  Check out this YouTube video: Read the rest of this entry »

This week I made my thirteenth reading of Dispensing Justice at my Tuesday night writer’s group. Read the rest of this entry »

I received an email from my friend Patrick this morning about the Avatar movie and some links to critiques thereof.  This sent me into rant mode.  So I thought I would inflict my rant on the rest of the world… (links are at the end) Read the rest of this entry »

My short-story-now-novel Nova Genesis: Dispensing Justice passed through the third-of-the-way mark this week Read the rest of this entry »

On my home to (hopefully) commit a 1000+ words of mayhem to Nova Genesis:Dispensing Justice in preparation for my 11th reading of my current novel in progress.

My latest short-story-no-its-really-a-novel young-adult SF-superhero action-adventure story just broke 10,000 words. Only another 25,000 (or is it 60,000?) words to go.

On my drive to work this last Tuesday I was listening to NPR and they had a discussion with a poet and this got me thinking about writing some poetry. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking forward to another AAAWG reading tonight. Read the rest of this entry »

The turnout for yesterday’s AAAWG meeting at Borders in Arborland was relatively light.   Read the rest of this entry »

I’m soliciting answers to the following question:

What novels or short stories stand out in your memory as “weird”??

I’m doing this in order to put together a “mind meld” (inspired by http://www.sfsignal.com Mind Melds) blog and wiki article based on your answers to this question (inspired by this question posted on Facebook by my friend and fellow writer, Sherlonya).  Feel free to answer with as few or as many novels, short stories, etc as your patience and/or interest  dictate.  If you are inclined, I am also interested in the reasons behind your answer(s).

My book order arrived yesterday and I am wallowing in writing book goodness.  A week ago or so I broke down and ordered a number of books on writing and criticism that I have been lusting after.  They are:

• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany
• Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
• The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Samuel R. Delany
• West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins

Now I just have to find time to read them all…

Have any notable books arrived in your life recently?  Or just books that you are reading now and want to comment on?

If you are a writer you may have heard of the admonition “kill your darlings“. Read the rest of this entry »

I managed to finish the rewrite on "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" and get it submitted to the Ann Arbor Book Fair Short Story Contest, too.  Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve submitted "All You Quantum Zombies" to the Ann Arbor Book Fair Short Story Contest and am trying to put enough polish on my heavily tweaked "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" in time to get it in by midnight.  It’s a bit dicey as to whether or not I’ll get it into shape and within the word count (you can guess which of those is more difficult for me).  Nose to the grind-stone and no writers' group for me tonight.

Hacking and slashing, I’ve been busy rewriting the last third of "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree".  More action!  More danger!  Less words! (But not less dialogue.) Read the rest of this entry »

The “Which SF/F/H World Would I Live In?” meme, found here and started there, prompts me to answer: Read the rest of this entry »

"Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" just went beta. If you are interested in being a beta-reader, drop me a line. It’s only 7000 words. What are you waiting for?

"Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" has entered beta draft. I’m planning on reading the first part of it tomorrow evening at AAAWG.

"Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" has moved into its first polish phase at a bit over 6000 words.  On track for a beta release by Monday.

I’m wrapping up my first draft "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree" Read the rest of this entry »

“Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree” is just shy of 3400 words and Read the rest of this entry »

Off to a good start on my latest short story, “Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree”, the second Kregar the Dimlander story.