Archive for July, 2010
Reading Recommendation: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
This is a rare case of “Saw the movie, bought the book,” and even rarer case of “both worked.” For my usual readers, It’s NOT genre fiction, except to the extent the life of people in Ozark Mountains feels a planet away from Seattle. I’m currently working on a strong female character in my novel [...]
Good Things in Threes
Most days, I still feel pretty invisible. I’m certainly not a famous science fiction writer, and no geek household name like Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross that gets thrown around the interwebs regularly. But today is a very pleasant writer/futurist day from the point of being engaged in the bigger community conversation. ABCnews included quotes [...]
Movie Recommendation: Winter’s Bone
Went out to see the movie Winter’s Bone in Queen Anne last night. I highly recommend it for writers. It has a strong female character, a society that is itself a character, knockout dialogue, real social dilemmas, and it never missed a beat. We often think our stories need to be big – to be [...]
Squeel! New Ted Chiang
I was walking through Kirkland Honda when I looked down at the table in the waiting room and spotted a picture of a very contemplative and lovely Ted Chiang on the cover of City Arts magazine. Yes, Ted is lovely – writers aren’t supposed to overuse adjectives, but Ted is a lovely geek. Inside the [...]
Reading Recommendation: WWW: Watch
I have been getting in more reading lately due to long drives (and audiobooks), the coming Hugo vote, and the fact that it’s a bit easier to read than write at the moment. Yes, I’m doing both, but in different proportions than usual. Anyway, I loved Robert Sawyer’s WWW: Wake, which I recommended long before [...]
More Happiness with The Girl….
I finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest in audiobook on my way down here to Bend, Oregon (a seven hour drive). Its the third book in Stieg Larsson’s wonderful trilogy. They are titled correctly — every one begins with the “The Girl Who…” and that is exactly who the books are about. The [...]
