It turns that if you’re this pink wandering through airports, you get a lot more smiles and outright grins. Orlando —> Los Angeles —> San Francisco. Mary is picking me up for the next leg. Long travel day! But pink!
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A few last pics from ICFA. Me and Stephen Donaldson — his books were formative for me. We talked for a little while about the difficulty with creating an ambiguous protagonist, one who really could tip towards the dark as easily as the light. It’s tough for readers — they start to invest in someone,
Mostly, ICFA is all about the conversations. Read More »
Dinner at Caravan (Orlando) — Uzbek & Turkish cuisine. Delicious, affordable, we ordered a ton. Halal and no alcohol, but we didn’t miss it. I’m not sure what I liked best, but I pretty much liked everything.
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My cabana workmate this morning; Alec Nevala-Lee is doing final revisions on his new biography of Luis Alvarez, physicist, while I finish re-reading Russ’s The Female Man. I’m still a little too tired to write well today, I think, but I can read and hopefully think a little. Planning to do final revisions either tomorrow
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I’m hosting a reading at 2:30, but this is my workspace for the next few hours. Slept in, desperately needed, still feel a bit groggy, but I should be able to get through some email at least. Intercut with swimming. Maybe some writing? We’ll see.
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Who wore it best — me or this plant? This is the ICFA pool. If I’m not on the schedule (I have three things, it turns out), it’s worth looking for me in the water.
I was in dire need of this! Boom boom shrimp, lemon drop cosmo, had a quick swim, 85F, and now I’m sitting by the pool and talking writing with Emma Bull, Delia Sherman, Madeleine Robins, and Ellen Klages. I can feel the tension starting to drop out of my shoulders.
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We had a free day in my Advanced Fiction workshop yesterday, where we’d finished the first round of critiques and hadn’t started the second set yet; usually I’d do writing exercises on a day like that, but I ended up doing something new — taking a class to talk about creative nonfiction. So many of
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I’m behind on everything, it feels like, but I haven’t actually dropped any critical balls yet, I think? I’m honestly not sure, because it’s been so hectic the last week that I haven’t had a chance to even stop and make decent to-do lists; I’ve just been going off what clearly needed to be done
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Do you think I have ENOUGH starry stuff yet to take to SF conventions? No, no I do not, because this is a masked convention, and I only have a dark blue mask, not a starry mask. ALAS! That will be remedied. Otherwise, I think I’m pretty good. I forgot my constellation travel mug at
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