Writing Must Explain Itself and Archon

Oct 02 , 2009
I will see some of you later today at Archon. It was one of the first cons I ever went to as a very new writer. In fact I didn’t know science fiction conventions existed to [...]
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Finding Your Own Pace as a Writer

Sep 28 , 2009
There is a natural flow to every book. There’s even a natural flow to how most writers work. I know writers that take six months off between books. One writer finishes a [...]
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Glee and Sex Education in my High School

Sep 27 , 2009
Favorite show that we Tivo-ed this week: Glee. This episode is called "Preggers" which is sort of self explanatory, and it does have a surprise pregnancy, but the parts [...]
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Working with Your Muse

Sep 24 , 2009
What is a muse? What is your personal muse? Goddesses? Fairies? A part of your own brain that only seems to have a life of its own? Is the muse simply inspriation? I’ll let [...]
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Happy Mabon

Sep 22 , 2009
Happy Mabon everyone! It’s Autumn equinox with day and night of equal length. From this point on the nights will grow longer until on Winter Solstice we will have the [...]
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Keeping the Inches Off

Sep 17 , 2009
We put up pictures of dinner last night, but I realized we may have left you all with a false understanding of how much we ate. So here’s a picture of lunch to show you that [...]
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Never Give In

Sep 16 , 2009
Today was a day when the muse was not in my head, or my heart. It was like the 14 pages from yesterday had emptied me out. I was vaguely angry, and disgruntled. I didn’t [...]
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Upcoming Appearence

Sep 14 , 2009
Up coming appearance:  SciFest 2009 at the St. Louis Science Center.  October 10th, 8 – 10 PM in the Exploradome.  Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased in [...]
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Josh Olson is not a Bastard…

Sep 13 , 2009
Josh Olson wrote an article for the village voice where he was rude. I would never, ever, ever, tell anyone that I will not read their fucking script, book, short story, or [...]
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There is no Humor in Heaven

Sep 12 , 2009
Carri, my assistant, that had the car accident about a month ago, remember her? Well, her wife, Pili, broke her thumb, badly, last night. We met them for lunch, and they were both [...]
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