Hey folks, Just wanted to check in and let you all know that things are finally moving again here. I got some good news on Monday, which is to say that my oncotype came back and there’s no ...
Cancer stuff update over here.
Hey folks, Just wanted to let everybody know I came through yesterday's surgery fine, and I'll probably be writing a public newsletter post with some of the grosser details for everybody's enjoy...
Surgery on Monday the 27th. Can't wait to have it over with.
Hey folks, Just wanted to let everybody know that my surgical consult is on Thursday afternoon, and I expect to be scheduled rapidly for surgery after that. If that goes well then I can look for...
One thing I'm finding upsetting is how much food I've had to throw out over the past couple of weeks as the cancer bullshit and stress eats our lives. Usually I enjoy being thrifty and not wastin...
Hey, folks. Ages since I updated, and I'm sorry. This is one of those bad news but not the worst news posts, which is to say that I've been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and am ...
Basically, this morning was nothing but the highest quality kitten cuddles, as Duncan and Molly were being unbelievably cute. *Boop.* nom nom nom nom S...
A draft, a veritable draft. 3300 words today to finish off my untitled Shirley Jackson inspired SF story, which was supposed to be 7000 words and is 9500. AND IT'S DONE DONE DONE. Well, okay, n...
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My contribution to the Trump Story Project, "What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed ," is now live at Slate.
WIJHKTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!! With extra letters. I just finished and handed in a draft of "Perfect Gun," a mil-SF short story about a boy and his war machine. And I got word that Stone Mad, which is ...
I'll be at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge MA tonight at 7 pm for a multi-author event with: Max Gladstone Scott Lynch Ada Palmer Charlie Stross Jo Walton Fran Wilde Click through fo...
Current kitten weights: Molly 8.6 lbs Gurney 10 lbs Duncan 10.7 lbs
More bracket notes that will haunt me forever, here .
I wrote a very long post on the problems of the kleptocracy and some ideologies for fighting it over here on my Patreon.
(Reposted from Patreon ) Over the next ten days, under the auspices of Slate, Héctor Tobar, Ben H. Winters, Nisi Shawl, Saladin Ahmed, Lauren Beukes, Jeff VanderMeer, Kashana Cauley, J. Robert ...
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(For first part of post, SEE FIRST ROCK .) (For second part of post, SEE PREVIOUS ROCK ) THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A NARRATIVE, PART III 11) But what if I want to write a tragedy? Well then...
(For first part of post, SEE PREVIOUS ROCK ) (For the last part of this post, SEE NEXT ROCK ) THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A NARRATIVE, PART II 7) The road winds ever on. Then there are the re...
The following is a version of the lecture on how to plot a story that I gave versions of every year at Viable Paradise from 2008 to 2013, to one each Clarion and Clarion West classes, and also on...
Here is a storify of my Inauguration Day Twitter rant welcoming the new folks to the resistance. Do the work that is before your hand to do. There is enough work for everyone, and enough hands...
Cover reveal for The Stone in the Skull up at Tor.com! Fantastic art by Richard Anderson! Book drops 10/10/2017. I'm actually working on the copy edits right now.
(reposted from Patreon ) You there. New writer. Freshly-published debut author. Get off tumblr, stop worrying about what people think, and go write your next book. Okay look, I'm not say...