A few weeks ago I wrote a little game for a contest called Little Game Chef. It's a sort of roleplaying-ish party game about language and etiquette, and since a fair number of the people reading me here might be interested in that sort of thing, I thought I'd link to the place I put it, here .

So, I recently finished Charles' Stross's Saturn's Children, and couldn't help but notice the depth of the plot's similarities to Varley's The Golden Globe. This is, of course, unsurprising, as both authors were deliberately imitating Heinlein in those books, but still, having not read more than a smattering of Heinlein, I'm wondering which of his ( Read more... )

Since I keep seeing this thing (most recently from arch-scrivener, I thought I'd go ahead and try it out myself

( Books Below the Fold )

So, no posts in a while here, and, correspondingly, very little writing-type activity either. Because right now it's more reading season that writing. So I thought I'd post a few extremely short reviewlets of recently read books ( Read more... )

Haven't posted for a while here, but I haven't been all that productive, writng-wise either, so that's that. Anyhow, here's a little poll, mostly so I'm sufficiently used to making polls to handle running the next instance of the_book_game...

Poll Test Poll

Beyond the weekly 500 words at 100 Word Stories (which is a really neat site that's always looking for fresh voices, by the way), I've broken through the blank page and written about 1000 words worth of a short story, as well as getting in my head a fairly decent outline of what the whole thing is going to look like. I think it's going to be about ( Read more... )

Another baseline week, with 500 words worth of 100 Word Stories and not much else actually written. However, a bit more movement in the planning stages ( Read more... )

Relatively little progress this week: 4 entries at 100 Word Stories (missing one day for the holiday) and that's it, apart from some time spent staring at a blank page and a little more looking over the first chapter of Inheritance (the 2005 NaNoWriMo work) with an eye toward a possible revision and continuance ( Read more... )

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." --Samuel Johnson ( Read more... )