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Posts Tagged ‘Neil Gaiman’

Writing Advice, and a Little Bit of Hero Worship

Posted in Writing, tagged , , on June 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This evening, I joined about 2,000 fellow geeks at Town Hall in Seattle to see Neil Gaiman do a reading and be interviewed by Maria Headley. I’ve been attending a lot of author signings recently, but this one was particularly special, because if there’s any author working today whom I actually idolize, it’s Neil Gaiman. [...]

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Dances with Pocahontas in Space, Revisited

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »

A few months ago I wrote a post criticizing the movie Avatar, which has become the most read (and most contentious) post in my otherwise quiet corner of the Interwebs. I didn’t even think of it as particularly critical; I liked the movie, I just wished it had stretched further with the story. A couple [...]

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Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time

Posted in Life, Writing, tagged , , , on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I haven’t blogged much lately, because I’ve been too busy following Neil Gaiman’s advice, particularly the first 27 seconds: The stories that I’ve been writing over the past two weeks aren’t the kind that get edited, proofread and sold to a magazine. No, I’ve been writing the messy kind, the stories that I can’t write [...]

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Halloween!

Posted in Life, tagged , , , on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Because I’m a total geek, and also because it was an easy costume, for Halloween I went as my favorite author: Anyone got it? Anyone? …. Okay, it’s Neil Gaiman. The most amusing incorrect guesses were “John Travolta” and “The Fonz.” (In their defense, particularly the guy who guessed The Fonz, it was a very [...]

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