Last Friday night, despite host Cami Kaos’ excellent guidance, I still managed to be all over the place topic-wise, and what the hell did I do to darken up my voice like that? Anyway, here I am, warts and all:…
Category: writing
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…
Friday Flash Fiction: “The Wren and the Hen and the Men in the Pen”
You may be wondering why I don’t post to this blog more often, except for these promotional links to my flash fiction. The reason is because I am a lazy bastard. Here’s a quick breakdown of my various online presences:…
Friday Night Live
Mark your calendars: On Friday, October 23rd, at 10PM Pacific, I will be a guest on Strange Love Live, a weekly online show featuring “the movers and shakers of the social web.” I’m not sure I qualify for that lofty…
UR Doin It Write
From House writer-producer Doris Egan‘s LiveJournal: Most people in the world can draw a firm divide between working and not working. You could take a picture of them, and see whether they’re working or not working. But a writer hitting…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Wake-Up Call”
Have I really been doing this for a full year already? Wow. Time flies. Read “Wake-Up Call” at 512 Words or Fewer
I Have No Excuse: FFNF09
Yes, it really has been six months since I posted the last installment of FREEFALL: No Fate, and no, I have no excuse. I’ve had this entire serial outlined for years, and each chapter is less than 3,000 words. I…
Cory Doctorow on Self-Publishing!
Jasper here, with some commentary from Hugo-nominated science fiction author Cory Doctorow! Cory’s latest Guardian column is about “Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers,” but he also addresses the question of self-publishing: [W]hy do we…
QuoteBusters: Lincoln didn’t say that.
Bayla here with some actual facts. I know, you probably didn’t expect to find those on the Internet. Just deal with it. While catching up with my blogs last week, I saw The Quotations Page‘s “Quote of the Day” for…
I’m Writing as Fast as I Can
I’m one of the writers participating in the Clarion West Write-a-thon 2009. “What’s that?” you say? I’m glad you asked. Clicky clicky: For details about my personal writing goals, and to donate by PayPal: http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/CurtisCChen It’s all kosher and 501(c)(3)…