Monthly Archives: February 2012

Rereads: Rudyard Kipling’s KIM

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

by Jennifer Stevenson The first time my mother read Kipling’s KIM aloud to me and my brother, we were both under two years old.  We understood maybe one word in ten, even with her footnotes.  But my mother was a … Continue reading →


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Spider Webs

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

By Linda Nagata (cross-posted from Hahví.net) Long, long ago I read a short story that still sticks with me. I have no idea who wrote it, or where I read it, but it involved a colony of human telepaths who’d … Continue reading →


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Forging Stories 4: Hammering Things Together

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Writers are expected to know the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and articles. If nouns and verbs are the basic building materials of the sentence, adjectives and adverbs act as ornamentation intended to enhance. Occasionally, writers fail to … Continue reading →


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What’s In a Name?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

When I went to the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 1981 I had two books in print, one on the verge of coming out (I got the galleys to proof while I was at the workshop) and had just, by dint … Continue reading →


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Weird Science: Presenting the Multiverse

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

by Sue Lange There’s no image for this post because you can’t photograph, or draw, or understand in any way the face of God. And as I discovered in researching this post, god = multiverse. First off, a joke. Set … Continue reading →


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Kickstarting the Future

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

No, not a Horseblog. That’s next week. I’m up to something else, and I’ll be blogging that every now and then over the next six weeks or so, in addition to the Horseblog. One thing Book View Cafe is about … Continue reading →


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Manuscript Preparation Redux

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

A blogger recently had some nice things to say about my venerable writing workshop handout, “Manuscript Preparation.” I first wrote the handout in the days when typewriters roamed the land, gobbling WiteOut and correcttype. Pre-World Wide Web. Pre-email. It’s been … Continue reading →


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Writing Groups and Writers, a Match Made in Heaven or Hell?

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

by Sherwood Smith That was the provocative topic for a panel recently. The description went like this: Many consider critiques from their writers’ group a valuable part of their submission process. Others tend to believe that writers’ groups tend to … Continue reading →


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The Normandy Landing: Part One

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

Having bought the village,  next came the move. It’s a ten-hour drive from the parched foothills of the Pyrenees to the lush green fields of Normandy. Or, if your only car is an ancient Citroen with a nervous complaint, twelve … Continue reading →


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Writing in the Digital Age: Pulling Aside the Curtain Reveals Some Nasty Dustbunnies

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

This week I had a very hard time trying to decide on a topic. Not because of a dearth of ideas, but because I had more than one that seemed urgent and timely. They are: The draconian TOS (Terms of … Continue reading →


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