Earlier this week, a writer friend and I touched on the topic of the infamous Delany Clarion circle. For those not familiar with this ritual, when Sam Delany teaches at Clarion, he has an optional group get-together in which he taps you with his God stick and tells you whether or not he thinks you’ll […]
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I’m on it. Though I don’t expect ya’ll to show up at 9am on a Saturday… Feminist Fiction Is So Five Minutes Ago (Feminism, Sex, and Gender) Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lyda A. Morehouse, Rebecca Maines, Kameron Hurley, Susan Marie Groppi The Female Warrior in Science Fiction: Who Does It
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Spent Saturday and Sunday watching Baylon 5 and sleeping, sleeping, fighting off my yearly sinus infection, and sleeping some more. My appetite was back on Sunday, which meant the worst had passed. I came home late Friday night after frantically getting everything done at work that I needed to get done and then literally collapsed.
I’m taking some much-needed time off from work next week, so COB today is the start of a 5-day weekend. Thank god. I’m so burned out at this job. The plan is to watch a lot of movies, sleep a lot, read a lot, and start tDW line edits. And not much else. Maybe water
Was going over the Wiscon brochure and discovered this tidbit: Samuel R. Delany to Interview Joanna Russ Unable to attend WisCon because of health problems, Ms. Russ nevertheless wants to participate in WisCon 30: she suggested a telephone interview. How could we refuse? You are all invited to listen when Samuel R. Delany interviews Joanna
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Whew. All neatly input into the text. Now: write the goddamn last final 100 pages, arg! And start tDW line edits. And work on book 2 of tDW series (in my spare time). And fly to Indy tomorrow (corporate FUCKTARDS!!!!).
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Had a very nice dinner out with Jenn and James & Ysa. Managed to get home before the big thunderstorm hit. Inputting the last 60 pages of line edits of God’s War into the text. I’ll be happy when that’s done – tDW is next up for reading and line edits, then I’ll have to
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Because sometimes what you write hits people like this: Seriously, there are only a handful of short stories that I look back on and remember vividly: Neil Gaiman’s version of Snow White, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream,” Kate Wilhelm’s “The Funeral,” Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” others I am neglecting,
Printing tDW today (finally, after a lot of false starts). Takes awhile to print 600 pages. Jenn and I are halfway through season 1 of Babylon 5. Good show. Not much more to report. Dinner tomorrow with James and Ysabeau. Inputting some God’s War line edits. My backporch garden continues to grow.
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Oh, how I love those corporate moments when the fact that I screwed something up becomes an asset to the company and means I *don’t* have to do something ALL OVER AGAIN. Ever better, I had some bullshit excuse as to why I just “decided” not to update those particular dates, “Seeings as all of