I realized this morning while watering plants that if I use the dimensional thingie to explain why my science fictional dragons can shapeshift to human form despite mass differences (and can also ‘store’ clothing for that form), then that opens up another possibility — Anne McCaffrey’s dragons in Pern used a dimensional thing to explain […]
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Quick note that I’ll be on a Wild Cards panel for ReConvene’s virtual convention on August 15th. My panel will be at 4 p.m. EDT, with the fabulous Peadar Ó Guilín, Max Gladstone, David Anthony Durham, and Melinda M. Snodgrass. They are all brilliant, and this is going to be an awesome panel. “Give us your kings, queens, jacks,
Quick note that I’ll be on a Wild Cards panel for ReConvene’s virtual convention on August 15th. My panel will be at 4 p.m. EDT, with the fabulous Peadar Ó Guilín, Max Gladstone, David Anthony Durham, and Melinda M. Snodgrass. They are all brilliant, and this is going to be an awesome panel. 🙂 “Give
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Super weird being out in the world again — was in downtown Chicago for a sekrit photo shoot. I did not wear a mask for the actual shoot. Weird being naked-faced around (masked) strangers.
Had a really nice interview / chat with a new project, have been hired to do some cultural consultant work. I’ve signed an NDA, so can’t give a lot of details, but wanted to mention it, especially for others out there who may be interested in this kind of work. Also wanted to be transparent
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Folks, I could use help. I’m getting ready to do some serious work with the SLF in the coming weeks — we’re going to need some new volunteer grants administrators, but I also want to really focus on building out the Portolan Project creative writing & lit. teaching resources, which has a new urgency now
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Finished a revision of the opening to the big novel. (I’m thinking of it as the little novel and the big novel, but it’ll be nice when I actually finish the little novel and send it out, so I can just refer to the novel instead of big novel, but anyway.) I wouldn’t prioritize that
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Okay, the story that’s been sitting waiting to be submitted for months for no good reason, I’ve finally re-read, changed one word, and now submitted. Fly, little story. Fly fast! Hey, I now have two, TWO, short stories out on submission, which I think hasn’t been true since, oh, grad school back in 2003 or
Sigh. I’ve been watching Madam Secretary while sewing masks recently, and the current episode is on Sri Lanka (season 4, episode 13), and as you might expect, I was excited to see how they’d engage with the complex Sri Lankan political situation…this could be really juicy. There’s certainly PLENTY to engage with on a political
Morning mask-sewing; this batch is ready to go out. A little more gardening next, some lunch, then writing-related work for the afternoon — urgent e-mail and Wild Cards joint plotting and revising a short story, drafting a food essay, perhaps. Okay, that probably won’t ALL get done this afternoon. But it’s okay if some of
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