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Alas, jerkbags still exist in the world
The month of June was a rough one for the Science Fiction Writers of America. The organization came under severe criticism for sexism, as the past three issues of its bulletin had included content that was, essentially, sexist. I debated about whether I should write about this myself. Run a search for “SFWA sexism” and…
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3 things I love about writing, with footnotes
Writing is work, and writing is hard, and therefore, despite those who believe that writing is this lovely thing that happens magically when fairies sneeze or angels blink, or as the result of some other event that requires no effort whatsoever (these people tend to not be writers themselves), I sometimes need to remind myself of what I like…
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3 of my favorite movies, in no particular order and with commentary
1. The Princess Bride Granted, this is pretty much a requisite pick for anyone above a certain age who claims any sort affinity with geekdom. But it’s eminently quoteable and makes for a simple yet effective “Can we be friends?” test. Didn’t like the movie? Well, I suppose there’s a slim possibility that we might…
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Writing as a third world problem
A couple of weeks ago, my then-two-month-old laptop died a rather anticlimatic death. I attempted to boot it up, only to have it try to boot from a media device that didn’t exist on the machine. Huh, thought I, I guess this might explain those messages I was getting about Windows shutting down unexpectedly, even…
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3 things to make an online dating profile or resume objective more interesting
Because I’m lazy, and also invested in working on my novel, I haven’t been posting much. (coughunderstatementcough) But web presence is important and all that, so I’ve been trying to think of a relatively simple conceit that will lend itself to less time-consuming posts than the ones where I bake something, take pictures, and write…
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‘Scuse the mess, please
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m revamping my site to include my posts from my soon-to-be-defunct Storied Baker site (successfully imported! huzzah!), and also applying my license to use Thesis over here. Nice in theory, but it does mean I have to deal with the learning curve of Thesis 2.0. Things may be…
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Alas, poor NaNoWriMo! I knew him, Chris Baty.
First off, the post title is a poor allusion for the following reasons: 1. NaNoWriMo is far from dead. 2. NaNoWriMo isn’t human, although many humans are involved with it. It’s closer to the Borg than a single human, except for the whole group-think-annihilate-humans thing.* 3. Because NaNoWriMo isn’t human, there is no skull for…
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Hortense Montgomery, Zombie Killer, Shares Graham Crackers
Hortense gave her meat hammer an absent rub as she surveyed the horizon. So far, it remained clear; the ocher rays of the setting sun lit only the barren landscape and not shambling corpses. “These are really good, Mrs. Montgomery,” Johnny said behind her. “Thank you, Johnny.” She didn’t bother to turn; one didn’t, when…