Archive for September, 2010
Listen up, writers! The joy of podcasts
Yesterday I had one of those long 8 hour drives through the country, me and my golden retriever and and a bunch of podcasts. I’ve taken a real liking to having stories told to me. Here are some of the reasons: As a writer, it’s an easier way for me to disengage the critical brain, [...]
Reading Recommendation: The Man Who Hated Gravity, by Ben Bova
Sometimes science fiction should be a little bit fun. It isn’t always, which I’m glad of. I recently wrote a guest post over at sfsignal about how good sf is at warnings. Which it is. But some days I’m happy we know how to have fun. I had a long drive this week, and as [...]
Celebrating Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is ten years old. I’m on my way from Seattle, WA to Bend, OR today, and stopping by Portland, OR to do a reading to celebrate Strange Horizons’ anniversary. Strange Horizons was one of our first electronic genre magazines, and I’m pretty sure it was the first to make it this long with [...]
If You Care About the Sea
You might want to pick up Book View Café’s benefit anthology for gulf relief. It’s only $4.99, available in a number of electronic formats. I have an original essay in it (almost more like an original rant) on the dangers of ignoring the ocean. There is original and reprint fiction, poetry, and other essays in [...]
Futurist Trivia: The Sunday Times
People often ask me where I get my ideas as a writer. The companion question as a futurist is “how do you study the future?” The answer, of course, is you study “now” and you study the past. Then you think a bit. Futurists aren’t predictors partly because we can’t see the wildcards or the [...]
It’s SF Week for me (That’s SFWA and SF Signal)!
Thanks to Cat Rambo for asking me excellent questions in an interview over on the Science Fictions Writers of America Site. I don’t actually see Cat nearly as often as I like, but by coincidence we met for coffee yesterday, and I got to pick her brain to add to a guest post I did [...]
The Dangers of Missed Deadlines, or Pretty Ruby
This spring, I attended a writer’s workshop in Flagstaff, Arizona. There, I agreed to get the final draft of my current WIP novel, The Creative Fire, done by August 31. Now, all of us came up with carrots or sticks. I came up with a stick, since I am personally motivated by sticks. My stick [...]
