she got a t.v. eye on me

Today’s guest blogger is j fisher.
j is a rabid dog, a writer of powerful poems and a rare sort of friend. He kindly agreed to do this blog post on no notice and with very little begging on my part, for which I’m grateful. Since the big question people wanted answered was about sex, drugs [...]

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Food links

After my post on Science and Baking I got a few tips from blog readers. They were great, and I wanted to share them:
Flannelberry told me about this site, where you can learn how to smoke, cure, can, freeze, dry and store food.
Jason suggested the book I’m Just Here for the Food if you like [...]

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Etc

The poll is closing as of five pm pacific time, so click some buttons if you haven’t yet done it. j’s terrifying rant is going up on immediately after. If you have questions for him, please post them in the comments. It’s my understanding that Mr fisher has all his shots and doesn’t typically bite, [...]

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Guest Blogger

That devious bastard J Fisher , author of three books of poetry published by Frontenac House, and the Warren Ellis of Canadian poetry, has agreed to do a guest blog here on Ridiculosity. Good god. Quick! Give him something to write about, because if he locks onto you or me, we’re toast.

This poll is now [...]

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6 Months of Writing

Here are the articles on the business of writing I’ve put together on this blog in the last six months.
On Contracts.
Ten Things I Learned About Publishing This Year.
On Slush 1.
On Slush 2.
What Not To Do.
On What Editing Does.
On Creativity.
On Peaks and Troughs.
How to Submit Your Book.

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More talk

More martial arts talk, this time from the monks at Fort Cosmos. On winning and losing and when one is the other.

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This is one amazing kid. Amazing, amazing, amazing. (via Hayden Thorne)

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Spring

It’s the first warm day in a long, long time. The first day where just standing in the sun can make you sweat. I was lying in bed with the window open and I heard, amidst all the springtime noises, a loud and protracted buzz and then the tump, tump of some small invertebrate bashing [...]

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New karate post

It’s been a long time since I wrote a karate post, so here’s an overdue post on learning weapons, the venerable and irritating “In the Real World” scenario, and my cute red shoes.

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Waiting

Still waiting to hear when we’re going to go on Bamboo (I fear the amount of work that’s going to go into that one), and waiting for my galleys for Handbook. Wait wait. Rush and then wait. Writing is a lot like traveling that way.

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