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Back From Erstwhile: May 2012
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Thursday, May 31, 2012. This Is Who I Am and What I'm Doing: The Almost June 2012 Edition. It’s the last day of May. I won’t be sorry to see June. This has been a challenging month. If you’ve lost a member of your immediate family, I don’t have to explain, and if you haven’t, I can’t. So I’ll just say, again: May was a challenging month. I didn’t exercise as much as I wanted. I didn’t eat right as often as I would have liked. I’m giving myself a pass on those. Email me at s...
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Back From Erstwhile: March 2012
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Monday, March 26, 2012. How Do I Do It? Operation Hat Trick is moving ahead. I haven't been multi-tasking as much as I thought I might, but I've been making good progress on 'Dragon's Tail'. I've been experimenting, as I mentioned, with ways to be more productive, and I've hit on an approach that's been helpful, and that's also been forcing me to adhere to my attempts to accept imperfection. Which is great, but obviously raises a new question - is it worth it? Well, see for...
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Back From Erstwhile: October 2012
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Thursday, October 11, 2012. This Is What I'm Doing: The October 2012 Edition. Lots of little updates this time out. My goal is to have the new draft done, and out to my Beta readers, before the end of the month. Yes, this month, October. I know it sounds optimistic, but like I said, I have forward momentum at last, and I don't intend to squander it this time. This is going to be fun. November is of course National Novel Writing Month. I've also been doing some scripting!
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Back From Erstwhile: August 2013
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Saturday, August 31, 2013. Was there ever a convention called Con Descending? There must have been. Punning is as deeply ingrained in fen as arguing, Monty Python quotes and the phrase, "Not a question, more of a comment.". Regardless: Conventions. The gatherings of the geek tribes. Nerdhallas. Cons. With two big exceptions, about which more later, my involvement in fandom-related conventions has mainly been tied to being the co-creator and co-writer of Xeno's Arrow. I find...
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Back From Erstwhile: Because Really, Don't We All Want a Party in a Can?
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Because Really, Don't We All Want a Party in a Can? Years ago - the early 90's, I think - Sprite ran a fun, subversive little ad campaign that involved mocking the tropes of soft drink ad campaigns. They turned the tropes up to eleven and then contrasted the overblown hype with Sprite, and the slogan Image is nothing. Taste is everything. Obey your thirst. Well, I understood the intent, and I appreciated the satirical sting of the commercial-wit...
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Back From Erstwhile: Standing on the Ramparts of my Castle of Perseverance. Well, my Fort of Perseverance. Okay, my Small Cardboard Box of Perseverance
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Monday, February 03, 2014. Standing on the Ramparts of my Castle of Perseverance. Well, my Fort of Perseverance. Okay, my Small Cardboard Box of Perseverance. One of the things that they don't tell you about trying to break in as a writer is that it frequently involves a number of concurrent processes, many of which are totally outside your control, and that all unfold in their own time*. And that sometimes, those unfolding processes intersect in ways that aren't much fun.
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Back From Erstwhile: September 2013
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Thursday, September 05, 2013. Con Ascending: Making Cons Better and More Sustainable through Diversity in SFF. Hashtag to further the discussion. For some important background and the discussion to date, you can read the #DiversityInSFF tweets, as well as blog posts from Chuck Wendig. So what are these problems? Here are nine suggestions. Nine things we could to address the problems of diversity in literary SFF conventions and fandom. A final note: Many of these ideas are n...
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Back From Erstwhile: Reviewed -- TT: Full Throttle, an excellent debut YA novel
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Tuesday, October 01, 2013. Reviewed - TT: Full Throttle, an excellent debut YA novel. All of which is to say that I am so not the target audience for TT: Full Throttle. The debut novel by my friend Nicole Winters, set in the world of motorcycle racing and specifically, at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy race. A YA novel about motorcycle racing? Yeah, so not my usual thing. I love this book. In the interests of full disclosure: I originally posted this on Goodreads. But a) I'...
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Back From Erstwhile: November 2012
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The Long Road Back to Writing. Friday, November 30, 2012. This Is What I'm Doing: The Looking Down The Barrel of December 2012 Edition. There are always slings and arrows. Sometimes they bounce off our armour, sometimes we get by with the nicks, bruises and superficial contusions of outrageous fortune, and sometimes they hit us in sensitive spots. All of which is to say: It’s been an interesting month. I’m looking forward to sharing them with you. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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