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My Entry in the Wheaton/Scalzi Fanfic Contest

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In this post from last month, I mentioned that Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi have been holding a fanfiction contest, in which the goal is to describe what the heck is going on in the picture on the right. Well, the contest is over, and my entry is among over 350 others that got submitted. [...]

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Musings from a Barnes & Noble Writing Panel

Posted in Life, Writing, tagged , , on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As the title of this post suggests, last week I attended a writers’ panel at a local Barnes & Noble with five sci-fi and fantasy authors from the Raleigh area. I’d never been to a panel like this outside of a sci-fi con, so I decided to check it out– and besides, I like listening [...]

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“Memphis” Wins! Neener Neener!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This weekend, the Broadway musical “Memphis” won the Tony Award for Best Musical. It was a triumph I was glad to see, because as I mentioned in this post from January, my brother Charlie is part of the ensemble. He was with the show while it was in La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, and [...]

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The Little Novel That Could

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »

My novel (working title: “In a Land of Wind and Sky”) has gone through a series of fitful starts and stops over the past few months. My muse has been sidetracked by various short stories that I’ve been writing instead, but the novel stays stuck in my head, poking at me occasionally, like an itch [...]

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ConCarolinas ReCap

Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On Saturday I drove to Charlotte to check out ConCarolinas. Several notable authors were there, including Jerry Pournelle and John Ringo, and I also wanted a chance to try out my birthday present to myself, a Canon Rebel T1i DSLR Camera. If I want to submit any travel writing to magazines or websites that might [...]

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A Question and a Good-Bye

Posted in Writing, tagged , , on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Does it count as a rejection if a magazine to which you submitted a story closes down before they get back to you with an answer? Atom Jack Magazine closed, which is a shame, as I thought they printed some dang good stories (and available for free, even). I was obviously not exactly a regular [...]

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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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Novel Status Update: Does Mulling Things Over Count as “Work”?

Posted in Writing, tagged , on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Since NaNoWriMo ended, I’ve actually gotten a fair bit of writing done… unfortunately, very little of it has been on my novel. Instead, I’ve been following my muse on little flights of fancy, writing a few short stories that are too far off the weirdness scale to do much with. They’ve been fun to write, [...]

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Droids: Not Just For Star Wars Anymore

Posted in Life, tagged , on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I got me a new toy this weekend: my first-ever smartphone, a Motorola Droid. It’s been a while since I’ve bought a new gadget to geek out on… in fact, I usually avoid buying new technology. My laptop is over two years old, my most advanced gaming console is a PS2, and my TV is [...]

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Post-NaNoWriMo Letdown

Posted in Writing, tagged , , on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My final word count for National Novel Writing Month ended up at 59,117 words: a hair short of my personal goal of 60,000, but well over the official goal. I suffered from a precipitous drop in motivation near the end; I don’t think it’s because I passed the 50,000-word mark so much as I was [...]

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