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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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