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Quarterly quarterly

Posted in Publishing on March 31, 2008 | Comments Off

Well well, I woke this morning to find an email from Don Webb of Bewildering Stories in my inbox. Looks like not only did they enjoy my essay on genre but my short story Homebody caused a little controversy. Both can be found in the Quarterly Review.

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What a weekend

Posted in General on March 31, 2008 | Comments Off

Whoa, what a weekend.  I had a pile of stuff to do and owing to a two and a half hour nap in the middle of the day, I got about 10% of said stuff done.  Now I’m really, really behind.  I’ve got two slush items to read, unknown quantities of emails to respond to [...]

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Working at Work

Posted in General on March 29, 2008 | Comments Off

OK, nobody tell my boss, but the best thing about having the computer at the shop is not being able to check my email when I should be doing productive stuff. The best thing about having the computer at the shop is being able to write story ideas and email them to myself. [...]

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Karate column n stuff

Posted in News, Writing on March 27, 2008 | Comments Off

A while ago I was invited to contribute to a karate blog aimed at the students in my dojo. Today I finally got my schiznit together and committed myself to three months of essays.
I’ll be contributing to the blog bi-weekly (I think. I can never remember if that means every two weeks (which [...]

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Snow

Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »

After gloating to my sister about how the cherry blossoms are out it is, in fact, snowing right now.

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Wallpapers

Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | Comments Off

Stands in awe.

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New! Improved! Writing style!

Posted in General, Writing on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A few weeks ago I got some advice from a respected friend about my writing. He intimated that when I was imitating others my writing became grade A crap, but when I was just writing, as I get when I’ve had too much coffee or I’m really tired or I’m in a hurry and [...]

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Cover Letter Break Down

Posted in General, Writing Room on March 24, 2008 | Comments Off

Today I was in contact with an editor and attached to the bottom of the email he sent to me was the submission email I sent to his press. Interestingly, whoever vets the editor’s mail went through my email and highlighted certain parts of my query. And now, for the first time in [...]

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Flails

Posted in General on March 24, 2008 | Comments Off

So, lately I’ve been thinking my spelling must have suddenly improved because my spelling checker wasn’t picking up any errors.  Gee, thought I, all that Latin and practicing has really started to pay off.  Not so.
My spelling checker wasn’t picking up any of my spelling errors because I somehow managed to turn off the dictionary [...]

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Conversation with a Real Writer

Posted in General on March 21, 2008 | Comments Off

I had a long, interesting, possibly transformative conversation with Jay Fisher today. I drank what was, for me, a great deal during our four hour blabfest and remember only snippits of conversation. The more I think about it, the more bubbles up, which is nice. That means I can mine it [...]

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