Paul just told me that his favorite new energy thing is this sublingual B-vitamin complex. Me: Does that work?Him: Try it. Results: ten minutes later it started working. Started babbling, felt full of ideas and energized. One hour later felt like brain exploded, had to take nap on couch in library. Woke up feeling like [...]
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As many of you know, I hate mowing my lawn. I used to think this was because I actually hated the act of mowing the lawn, which was a thoroughly miserable experience growing up — my hay fever was so bad that after sitting on the tractor for an hour I was a fountain of [...]
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The other day TLAT Pam sent this link of hair metal videos on YouTube. I watched a bunch of these, including the one for White Lion’s “Wait” which you should watch. Here are some observations: 1. Can you believe this ever happened? I mean, there’s a stretch where the singer is standing on stage, dressed [...]
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
I think the Clarkesworld rejection has already spoiled me; all the other markets are estimated at a month or more before they get back to you. I’m waiting to hear from Theresa before I send Twenty Ten out again. Since turnaround times from here on out are so long I’ve got to be strategic. The [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Just keeping ya’ll up to date. This one went to McSweeney’s, which is somehow even less likely to go through than the one to Clarkesworld. But I don’t care. The piece is perfect for them, and it’s good enough. And when it gets rejected, I’ll send it to someone else. Did I mention 2010 was [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
This morning, for what is essentially the first time ever, I submitted a story. To Clarkesworld magazine, which has published some pretty compelling work in the past. Spar, by Kij Johnson, I liked particularly. [Mom: don't read it.] The rejection rate is crazy high, and even though I feel my story is very strong it [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
We’ve got a trillion strays roaming around the neighborhood and tonight Monica, sweet soul that she is, let one into the house. Now he won’t leave. Not sure what to do about this. This is not the cat, but it will help you visualize maybe. Help.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Is that if something really matters, if you _really_ want to be good at something — which is different than simply saying that you want to be good at it — you’ve got to do it every day. Even if it’s just some tiny increment forward; even if the effort is rubbish, or a failure. [...]
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
A Bayesian Network is, in a nutshell, a way of describing relationships between things in a probabilistic way. For example: someone might say that if I finish my novel Cloudytown then the world will end with probability .5. Okay, that’s an idiotic example, but if you take a gander at the link you might get [...]
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The results are in, and I won the second-annual post-Clarion-West 2008 writing contest. The top three people were: 1: Me (70 stories) 2: Maggie (45 stories) 3: Pam (42 stories) I turned in #70 just before midnight, New Year’s Eve, and haven’t written anything since then, which has been weird, but not as weird as [...]