Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2006
It’s come to my attention that many of you have been puzzling over the academic language in Ducks’ latest essay. Since certain terms can be confusing to the lay reader, I’ve run the text of the article through Babelfish1 in order to to translate it from Academic to Fan.
“Buffy loves ANGEL! ANGEL […]
Posted in General on Aug 7th, 2006
1. Last summer, I noticed that a number of pine trees all across town were showing big patches of dry needles. At first I thought it was the drought. But then I realized that it was only the Aleppo pines–none of the deciduous trees or the other species of pines seemed to be […]
Apropos of the whole crit kerfuffle, there’s a WIP I’m reading which is definitely guilty pleasure material. I gather the author is somewhat new to writing. She’s definitely got talent–quite a lot of talent, really; she has a particular flair for humor and dialogue, her descriptive abilities are above average, and though she’s […]
Posted in General on Aug 4th, 2006
Mom got the call from her sister this afternoon; my uncle died today. He never regained consciousness after the stroke. So I guess I’ve got to put in for more time off tomorrow, or as soon as we find out when the funeral will be. (ETA: No, I don’t; just talked […]
Ask me anything you want about any of my stories: how I thought of the idea, what I did to write it, what I was thinking when I wrote it, what I feel about it now, what I wish I’d done differently, etc. Or ask any of the characters from particular stories something you want […]
Posted in General on Aug 1st, 2006
And I was just thinking to myself that Writercon had gone off without any major kerfuffles–certainly nothing like the fraughtness of the anti-Spike contingent trying to hijack a panel last time. Ho ho ho, was I wrong. There’s a fine old scuffle going on over on writercon over this convention report.
I […]
