I don’t believe in new years resolutions (unless it involves buying a new monitor at an after-the-holidays sale) [see what I did there?]. If you’re going to exercise more, or eat better, or anything else, just do it. Don’t wait for an arbitrary number to change to a another arbitrary number. That said, a calendar [...]
Deep into editing of Devising, and the prime real estate on my desk is covered with papers related to that: a heavily marked up outline and notes from my alpha reader. I stumbled upon a neat trick for editing. Normally I edit front-to-back, which works well for flow and sentence-to-paragraph-level issues. But for this pass, [...]
After an epic cleaning session last month, things were pretty rough for a while. And by rough, I mean tidy on the desk. But now the iPad is back on my desk, to play Pandora. The new webapp is cool, but it uses so much memory over time that it chokes my system. (Symptoms = [...]
The desk: getting very messy, even by my standards. It may take an archaeologist to dig through all the layers. But I don’t care because: I have another story sale! It will appear in the WTF Anthology (which is promising to live up to its name) in print and ebook toward the end of this [...]
Teas have proliferated on my desk. In the back corner, I have Two kinds of yerba mate Good Earth Lipton Vanilla Caramel Truffle Dawson’s Raspberry Cream Caramel (not actually tea, mostly barley) Some packets of brown sugar ginger tea mix Other than that, I have Spry xylitol Berryblast Mints Entertainer’s Secret throat spray Vitamin C packets One [...]
So, I’m taking another crack at brewing a Sumerian beer. And the first step, is making a Sumerian bread called bappir. Here’s the recipe: 24oz organic barley flour 16oz warm water 8oz grape nuts cereal (flour, malted barley flour, salt, yeast) 8oz honey generous amount of freshly ground coriander generous amount of freshly ground cardamom [...]
Now official; check it out. My story The Knuth Number has been published by On The Premises issue #14 with the theme “Numbers, numbers, numbers”. Editor Tarl Roger Kudrick was a breeze to work with, and I’m thrilled to have made my first sale in a fiction market. Tonight we celebrate (by writing more).
I publicly committed to a deadline of June 30 for my editing pass, and that deadline has wooshed past. That’s the problem with arbitrary deadlines–there’s no way to tell how realistic they are. It’s fair to say that before this point, I’ve never properly edited a novel before. Heck, it’s fair to say that even [...]
As I noted earlier here, heads down in editing. No idea if my overall word count is up or down at this point. With the first pass on paper, there’s tons that’s crossed out, but lots written in margins too. The stack of pages left to do looks like less than 50, after which I [...]
Even within the audience of approximately 7 reading this blog, there might be some overlap with attendees of Potlatch 20 this weekend in Sunnyvale. If so, see you there! I’ll also be at FOGcon the following week.