Improve your spacial reasoning skills! Trounce others online! Make the biggest snowball ever! Trounce others online! Kill slugs! Pretend to kill other people’s slugs! Ne fume pas! Trounce smokers! Yeah, it was another great ass-kissing day here in balmy Chicago…
Well, it looks like I’m still eligible for the Campbell award for Best New SF/F writer (2nd year of eligibility) because of the screwy rules regarding when Strange Horizons became a pro market. For anyone interested in voting, here’s the list of eligible nominees. SO VOTE! No pressure. 🙂 As usual, I’m a pretty small
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On Thursday night I was walking home from work downtown when I saw a woman on the corner of Washington and State holding up a Free Hugs sign. I’d already seen the original Free Hugs video on YouTube, so I had a little shot of happiness at seeing somebody out in Chicago doing the same
As much as I downplayed my former job as being that of a “glorified admin,” I realize now that I was not really an admin and I definitely wasn’t a secretary or a receptionist, even though I did cover the phones sometimes when the receptionist was away at lunch. No, the bullshit of job titles
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When you need just the right word… that doesn’t actually exist.
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Plot should really be a very simple thing. Something bad happens to someone. Then things get worse. I’m pretty good at heaping on trouble, I’m just not sure that in the end, any of it makes any sense. Being a sort of “sit down and see what happens” writer, the whole process of discovery thing
Come now, who didn’t LOVE this show? I think Kirk should have just taken his mask off and screamed, “AHA!!!”
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