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Yes, I’m splitting this one. When you spend a morning playing with galaxies and dark matter, you kind of need to give them their own space.Um. So to speak.It was Mike Brotherton‘s day to lecture again and he picked up … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Alma Alexander
Okay, but we’ll get to that.Our morning was spent up in the Vedauwoo area at something between 8000 and 8300 feet (heard conflicting reports on this from locals, will have to nail it down later). I was dithering about whether … Continue reading
Launchpad, Day 1 I didn’t sleep all that well but by all accounts it was endemic because people were wandering around at 4 or 5 AM all over the place this morning – the hard board-like mattress I can take, … Continue reading
“Burn! Burn! BURN!” “Wait! Stop!” Gaia reached out to gather a gasping koala into her arms, looked up into a sky which was an improbable shade of dark red and empty of birds. “What are you doing? Who are … Continue reading
See, there’s a part of me that mourns that THIS is the question that pops up like a jack in the box. The country I was born in – the one that doesn’t exist in atlases any more – was … Continue reading
What happened to music? Yeah, I know I am entering the full ‘get off my lawn’ curmudgeonly territory – but honestly – I can’t say I remember many songs from this millennium. Or from some ten years before, actually. It … Continue reading
You’ve all been here. You’ve ALL been here. You have a particular piece of software that you LIKE, that does the job that you need it to do, that functions perfectly, that you are used to, that you can actually … Continue reading
What is the most important thing in a story? That it contains characters that you can identify with, people who look like you, see the world like you? For far too many readers, that is what they expect from any … Continue reading
It’s a favorite panel topic at science fiction conventions – scratch around in any con’s program and some variation of “pantser or plotter?” will pop up, like you’re playing Whack-a-Mole. You’d think people have heard everything to be said about … Continue reading
Perhaps it is just an occupational hazard, but going into a house where a writer has lived and worked has a certain significance to me. Yes, I know that writing is a thing that can be done anywhere, and that … Continue reading