Friday, September 7th, 2007
Ever since this morning when my wife called from the computer room that Madeline L’Engle had died, I’ve been trying to come up with something clever and poignant to say about her. I can’t. I’m just not built that way. I mean, it would be no exaggeration to say that reading A Wrinkle in Time [...]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
And the winner is…
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Via Slice of Sci Fi, I found a rumor that is bound to upset, shock, and dismay up to half a dozen people worldwide: Flash Gordon, despite a plan for a two-season arc, will probably not be renewed past the first season on the Sci Fi Channel. As someone who has seen plenty of my [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Today I pushed the current draft of The Solitude of the Tentacled Space Monster past the 50,000 word mark. Granted, nearly all of those words were copying and pasting from an earlier draft with no more editing than some minor name changes, but what the hell. I admit that I’m still not entirely pleased with [...]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I am a linear writer. A very linear writer. And what I mean by that is when I write a story, I start at the beginning, and write in chronological order, scene by scene, until I reach the end of the story. I may rearrange scenes later, or insert a new scene at the beginning [...]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
In comic books and novels and movies, supervillains are the guys who have Grand Schemes for taking over the world. They use Doomsday devices, they make their headquarters on zeppelins or in underground lairs, and they wear outlandish costumes. Think about Doctor Doom from the Fantastic Four, for example; he’s an evil genius, and he [...]
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