Me interviewing Kelley for a Tweet Chat this morning
Do you write? Are you on Twitter? Then you might want to join me and Kelley Eskridge today for the first ever…
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What I’ve been up to
Things have been a bit quiet around here because I’ve been busy. I’m back in physical therapy, this time something called neuro-physiotherapy,…
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Kelley has reached $2,500 in sponsorship for her Clarion West daily write-a-thon work. She’s written some brilliant stuff, and you have all…
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Thanks to all you generous readers, Kelley has hit her $2,250 sponsorship goal for the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. So as a special…
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To balance the woman of yesterday, here’s an unedited closeup of a man: She had never seen a clean-shaven man so close…
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It’s official: Kelley has now reached her goal of $2,000 in sponsorship for her Clarion West write-a-thon work. She’s writing fresh pieces…
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I lifted the title for this post from the Economist article of the same name: Radiocarbon dating provides a range, often spanning…
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Nothing from me today. Instead, go read Kelley’s latest piece, “Feeding Time.” It’s about a man who talks to predators. Key words:…
Read moreAll about Hild
Bamburgh Castle, by Norman MacKillop, used by permission I am officially two-thirds of the way through the first rewrite of my epic…
Read moreImmortals: Trailer 2
I’m guessing the story will be, ah, sub-optimal. And I hope they release a 2-D version. But parts of it will look…
Read morePort like cello music
One of the gifts we got for our anniversary was a bottle of 40 year-old port: We haven’t cracked it yet, but…
Read moreIntroducing the new perbs
Last year, I grew a bunch of herbs in pots on the back deck. I called them the perbs (as opposed to…
Read moreClarion romance, 23 years on
Kelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…
Read moreMoney matters
Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual roundup of links of interest to emerging writers. I was struck by the Behler…
Read moreHerbs, kerbs, perbs, and honeysuckle
It’s a grey day here, a mizzle of drizzle. But the garden is lush. Next time the sun comes out, I’ll take…
Read moreHild rises from the swamp
Hild is progressing nicely. The first draft started at 976 pages. About 40% of the way through the rewrite I’d lost 54…
Read moreGo vote for best f/sf novels eva at NPR
In case you haven’t heard, NPR is soliciting votes for the 100 best F/SF novels of all time. This would be a…
Read moreDonald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
Now this is what I’d like to do with my estate–if, y’know, I had one. From the New York Times, the announcement…
Read moreThe Clarion West Write-a-Thon begins
Kelley has started her forty-one days of writing for the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. Her first piece is up, prompted by the phrase,…
Read moreSnippet of naked writing
Here’s a downpayment on the naked writing that will begin on Sunday in support of Kelley’s Clarion West Write-a-Thon. The moon is…
Read moreGlottering: a new word
Yesterday I invented a new word, glottering–except, it turns out, it was invented long ago. Tuh. ‘The stork glottereth, this is a…
Read moreWant to see my naked work? Sponsor Kelley!
This is a repost of Kelley’s post about the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. Sponsor her! It’s a great cause and she’s a fab…
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