Steve was the first person I met at Viable Paradise XII–we were both in the airport, waiting to board the puddle-jumper to Martha’s Vineyard, and he correctly deduced from my laptop adornments that I was a fellow writer…
Category: VP12
Holmes + Dracula = ???
My VPXII classmate Christian Klaver has a short story, “The Adventure of the Solitary Grave: From the Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes,” in the new Anthology of Dark Wisdom from Elder Signs Press. Per Christian, it’s “a Sherlock Holmes…
An Observation
John Scalzi is the only person I know who regularly and unironically uses words like “ginchy” and “cromulent” in casual conversation. That is all. ~CKL
How’m I Doing?
Short answer: Pretty well. Long answer: Remember all those commitments I made at the beginning of the year? I haven’t managed to meet all of them, but I’m making the effort and accomplishing a decent majority of everything I set…
Reflections on teh RaceFail
My somewhat entirely selfish observation about the whole “RaceFail ’09” debacle is this: I’m really glad I attended Viable Paradise last year, because this year’s class experience is sure to be tainted–if not completely eclipsed–by this stupid thing. (Lucky XIII,…
My 2009 Commitments
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a terminology issue–I don’t make resolutions. I’m not Congress, or the United Nations. I also don’t set goals, because that word has been poisoned by years of working in Dilbertville. (I reserve the…
67,118 words
Finished my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel tonight. I had been shooting for 75,000 words, but I reached a natural and satisfying endpoint for the story I was telling at just over 67,000. I considered going back and inserting a few chapters…
CKL+D Go To OryCon
OryCon 30 starts tomorrow! You can view our tentative schedule on Google Spreadsheets. We also hope to meet up with our friends Ken & Cera and Kevin & Steph at some point during the weekend. And find a couple of…
Where in the World?
Propagating my friend Marko’s travel meme… Five really interesting/beautiful foreign places I’ve visited: British Columbia Niagara Falls Taiwan Mexicali Hawaii (that’s a “foreign place,” right, Cokie Roberts?) Five countries that are high up on my List of Places I Want…