Links, Linguistics and Writing
We’ve had more snow today. It started snowing in the morning and by the time I had to go to school for my afternoon class, I had to shovel the car free. It’s started snowing again sometime in the...
View ArticleReal World Settings and Research Fallout
There are many reasons I prefer writing fantasy and SF – one of them is that you don’t have to deal with the constraints imposed by real world settings. But some stories, unfortunately, insist on being...
View ArticleJust some links
It’s still very cold and didn’t even get any higher than minus eight degrees or so all day long. Still snowing, too. There’s perhaps been another three centimeters or so of snow over night. What is...
View ArticleA Bouquet of Writing Links
I don’t really have anything of interest to say, too busy with translating and writing to do much else, so have a couple of writing links instead: Theodora Goss has a great post on the importance of...
View ArticleVampires and Supervillains
Here are two posts on vampires from Theodora Goss and Nathan Ballingrud. What unites both of them as well as many others in the speculative fiction community is that they see the romanticization of the...
View ArticleBodily Functions in Fiction and Reality
Either I have caught some kind of stomach bug or I simply ate something that disagreed with me. I sincerely hope the culprit wasn’t this recipe from the New York Times site that I tried out on...
View ArticleWriting Links for the Weekend
I came across some really good writing posts and articles of late, so have some links: First, here is a good post on point of view and selectivity by James Alan Gardner. Found via Jay Lake. In the...
View ArticleBusy with something else linkdump
I’ve been hard at work preparing the next Pegasus Pulp e-book for publication. This time around, it’s the first of several stories and novellas I wrote about the Silencer, a masked vigilante in the...
View ArticleBremen, Books and Banksy
I was in Bremen today. I had lunch at the Restaurant Übersee and ate their penne with chicken breast and broccoli in plum chili sauce. I don’t really need the chicken, but I love the sauce. I also...
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