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One thing I know

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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Social stuff

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 Gunslinger

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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 [...]

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Year end

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The year’s about to end. I’ve been super lax in updating stories recently, which is funny, that the posting of the stories, which takes three minutes, is what I’ve been bad at, and not the writing of the fucking things, which takes an hour or more but takes a shitload of mental energy besides, during [...]

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Story #22: Ice (and others)

Friday, December 4, 2009

I’m sick of writing a blank post with a few gibberish characters on it every day. From now on I’ll just update the CCW0809 page without further annotation here; if you want to comment on a story just mention in your comment which story you’re referring to. Oh yeah, one other thing, a story of [...]

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Story #21: Fucking Well Getting To The Bottom Of It

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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Story #20: Bridge

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Story #19: What You Would Say Is Love

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Story #18: Rubik

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Story #17: An Intervention for Party Bob

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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