HOORAY for EBear, who has won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer! *beam* Yay! *dances around happily*! Now whenever I refer to her I shall have to say “Campbell Award winning author”, like whenever actors who’ve won Oscars are referred to they’re called “Academy Award winning actor”. I’m sure it shall get ever so tiresome. :) YAY BEAR! *beam*! miles to Mount DOOOOOM: 24
“This is never going to work.”
Every time I take one of the size eight pairs of jeans out to put on, I look at how small they are and I think, “This is never going to work.” So far, though, it keeps working. And it struck me that writing is rather a lot like that. Especially doing something like a short story, ’cause I’m not accustomed to them. I’ve got about 3.5K written on this story. My conscious brain keeps thinking, “This is never going to work,” while the rest of me goes ahead and…
wow, cool
…and any afternoon that starts off with an interview request has got to be a good one. I just got email from a woman at science fiction/fantasy/horror podcast site(s) Dragonpage/Slice of Sci-Fi asking if I’d be interested in doing an interview with them for their book-focused show, “Cover to Cover”. What I don’t know about podcast could fill libraries, but hell, Cory Doctorow thinks they’re cool, and if Cory Doctorow thinks they’re cool I’m pretty much willing to run with that. Besides, their sites are well put together, which is…
nothing specific
Any morning that begins with getting fan mail is a good morning. But now I’m procrastinating, reading about sleep paralysis instead of working on my short story. Perhaps a Thinks list will help. thinks to do today: 1. write 2. walk 3. write (unless I get a lot done with the first ‘write’) 4. bike 5. paint *considers it* Nope. Not feeling any more inspired. *goes to work anyway* ETA: 7. make jam There. Now I feel much more enthusiastic about everything. :)
Stealth
Huh. Ted and I just got back from seeing “Stealth”, which was much better than it had any right to be, if you overlook the basic problem with the premise, which is, as Trip said, “Here, let’s take this insanely expensive and complicated piece of technology and hit it with a rock to make it work better.” (My basic problem with the premise was that the trailer introduces Jaime Foxx as the focus of the story and then has the babe clearly hooking up with the other dude for no…