Started a shared doc with Darius and Benjamin with podcast notes. I continue to be slow to adapt to this brave new world of shared docs and such, but I’ll get there. It just makes me anxious — what if someone deletes something important? There seems to be a lot of trust involved in working collaboratively in the cloud. […]
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Sometimes you just wake up full of don’t wanna, and I’m thankful that this morning, I don’t haveta. I have a university Zoom town hall at 10:30, talking about the fall semester (sigh). But until then, I’ve put on comfy pj’s, gotten myself coffee and meds and two seeni sambol buns, and returned to bed
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Finished a story revision, “Paper Star; it’s been a while since I did that ‘reading aloud the final draft’ phase of story work. Feels v. good. Off to the editor. Thanks to the Acorns + Jed and Dan and Alex for all the critique.
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Heh. K Tempest Bradford happened across an old photo of me and Neil — I’m in a sari, so I’m guessing this was at the Hugos. We look very young, so at least a decade ago — maybe two.
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Eep, I somehow managed to miss a book launch announcement. It’s a new book! Woot! To be fair, it’s not available in the U.S. yet, only the U.K. But for those across the pond, or those who are happy to order from across the pond, I’m delighted to let you know that the newest Wild
Okay, so I have podcast questions: a) If I use Zoom to have a conversation with Benjamin Rosenbaum, and set it to record, is it possible / easy / straightforward to strip out the audio track for a podcast, or should I record that separately at the same time? b) Is it silly to even try
Hey, folks — I have a story revision that could use beta readers, if you happen to have time today / tomorrow — It’s a revision of “Paper Star,” part of my SF Jump Space series, but should work as a standalone. (It does have spoilers for _The Stars Change_, though, so if you haven’t
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[you are here———————————————–] I have a propensity for jumping around in time in my stories, and sometimes I wish I could just put a little graphic at the head of each section, a timeline, to indicate ‘you are here’. [———–you are here————————————] I mean, I could do that. But it would be very noticeable and
Finished an overdue story revision and sent it in. (It’s a prequel story to “The Stars Change,” although should be read afterwards, because it has spoilers.) Kind of wanted to hold onto it and revise it again, and again, and again, I think because it’s been so long since I’ve been consistently writing fiction that
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Pacing is hard, people. I want a short story to be immediately engaging, but still have depth of backstory and characterization. If I start with the immediate problem, then I have to flash back to get the depth, which slows things down. (And Jed complains about all my flashbacks.) If I start with the background
