My sister, in response to my holiday emails about my travels up California Highway 1, said, “You’re really a Californian now.” She added, “You’ve made it there after Milton and Mega [our grandparents] tried, after Daddy and Mother tried, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2015
My latest write hack, when I find a movenot running long, is to break it up into summary bullet points and put the bullet points at the top of the file. That way I don’t have to read every movenot to the end looking for that great idea about Amanda being an army brat and how I fleshed it out to the tune of 25K worth of notes.
Continue readingLike every other published writer I know, my work has garnered rave reviews and anti-rave reviews. (Or perhaps that is rave anti-reviews?) Both ranged from insightful and well thought out to haring off after irrelevancies (like the reader who posted … Continue reading
A Child Who Survived by Ursula K. Le Guin The vapid statement “the creative adult is the child who survived” is currently being attributed to me by something called Aiga — https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-quote-creative-adult-is-child-who-survived-ursula-le-guin/ which is “supported in part by public funds … Continue reading
If we’re going to discuss fine points of grammar and style, then we need to define some terms. Some of the fuzziest common terms are strong verb vs. weak verb. The difference twixt the two is not so easy to … Continue reading
Today we have an interview with guest author/publisher Lawrence M. Schoen, to celebrate the release of his new science fiction novel Barsk. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, has been nominated for the Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula awards, is … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough I don’t know when scones became popular in the US, but it has been within my lifetime — I do not believe I saw them when I was a girl. For the scone as it is … Continue reading
(Note: I’ll complete my British Columbia trip series next time, on Saturday, Jan. 9) Today on Boxing Day, I’ll be snowshoeing far above the madness of post-Christmas “door-buster” sales. And I was lucky enough to escape a chunk of the … Continue reading
Archangel Gabrielle Alma Alexander When the Virgin Mary came down with chickenpox the day before the Sunday School Nativity, there was a Christmas crisis at St. Michael’s. They had been short on cast anyway; they only had … Continue reading
I am one of the cool kids. I got to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening day without standing in line because the organizer of the science fiction reading series SF in SF put together a group outing … Continue reading