Yesterday, I posted about what it takes for a wannabe to become a writer. Fortitude and attitude. Today, I’m going to discuss something a little different. What does a writer do to keep going? This has been on my mind lately. I finished my last project in October of 2007…. Continue reading
Writing is hard work. It’s not something to be taken up lightly. Any writer with a minimum of success will run into people who claim they want to be writers, or want to write a book. Often, if you ask them about what they’ve done, the answer is either nothing,… Continue reading
Also Ran Back in February, I announced that my story Oh, Mallary! had been nominated for the James B. Baker Award for best short story published in a Sam’s Dot Publishing publication. (can anybody say conjugate?) I did not win. In the category of short story, the winner is:416175, by… Continue reading
Further thoughts on the track I’ve been taking this week. Fantasy vs Science Fiction. Why is Fantasy selling better than Science Fiction? I don’t mean now, I mean for the past fifteen years. Is Fantasy inherently better than Science Fiction? Clearly, that’s an answer that can only be a matter… Continue reading
Second-to-last post I talked about hard SF. (Last time I talked about a guitar string.) This time, let’s go back a few posts and pick up on something I assigned to the category of science fiction but called pseudo-fantasy. What is pseudo-fantasy? I threw out the example of Anne McCaffrey’s… Continue reading
I received this email today: Allow me to congratulate you on your earning the D.G.K. GOLDBERG AWARD for your story “Cosmology,” at http://Anotherealm.com. Your story was chosen by readers’ vote as the best horror story of 2007. The choice was a well-deserved one in my opinion, as your story is… Continue reading
We woke up early this morning to the dog barking, and found Grandma on the floor by the front door. “I just arrived,” she said. I’ll probably never know how she got to the front door without her walker, but there she was. Senility with convelescence and incontinence is not… Continue reading
I decided to tackle the green pool today. For those not following along, in July of 2006 my pump broke. I was told 2 days to repair it, but the two days turned into ten. You don’t leave a pool uncirculating for 10 days in Phoenix during the summer. A… Continue reading
Today, I finally registered for the 2008 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference at Arizona State University. Orson Scott Card and Michael Stackpole are on faculty this time. OSC is teaching a class, and Stackpole is teaching the genre small group (workshopping) session. I’ve wanted to meet Michael Stackpole for… Continue reading
…for my friend and IGMS editor Ed Schubert. One of his stories was just nominated for an Edgar award, the mystery genre’s equivalent to SF’s Nebula award. You can see all the comments on his blog: http://www.sideshowfreaks.blogspot.com/ www.ricknovy.com
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