I hate people’s end of year wrap ups. I hate the end of the year, when I feel like I’m in a worse place at the end of the year than I was at the beginning. There’s also so much hope and promise in the New Year, and then you get to the end of […]
Milestones, Setbacks and Goals: Writing the Future Read More »
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of a content mill. It’s about creating a high churn of work at a very low price. It’s about blasting out as many messages as possible – it’s pure, useless drivel. Best of all, it makes us feel like we’re actually achieving and accomplishing things – look! This
On Twilight Fan Fiction, Content Mills, and the Strangling of Creativity Read More »
NOTE: This post was originally published on the Feminist SF blog in 2006 or so. It was pretty popular at the time, but has been difficult to find these days, so I dug up the cache and am re-posting here. Despite being tempted (the “terrorism” bit is… interesting), I have left it unedited. Almost without
LeGuin, Boys’ Own Adventure, and the Fine Art of Genderfucking Read More »
Am avoiding writing. Here, have a Christmas skull.
Whiling Away the Dreary Days Read More »
It’s no big news that I write a lot. Like, a lot. I’m attached to 400-600 projects a year at the day job. I do freelancing work for a couple of clients – blog posts, press releases, that sort of thing. Then I picked up an adjunct position at a local design school teaching copywriting
On Sticking to Your Guns When the World Wants Posies Read More »
Note: Somewhat spoilery, but nothing you wouldn’t guess at if you read the comic. Watching Dredd was like stepping into a time machine that took me back to the 80’s and the gloriously apocalyptic, overpopulated, crime-ridden society that the media of the time all insisted we were headed toward. There are all sorts of theories
Dredd’s Sketchy Homage to a Dead Future Read More »
I’ve talked a lot about growing up in an area that was largely full of white people (I believe 98% of the county I grew up in was white during the 80’s). The effect this had on me, growing up, was not actually the one you might expect. Instead of (I thought) teaching me explicitly
What living in South Africa taught me about racism in America Read More »
Spoilers: The hostages get away! The boat sinks! Etc. When I saw the first trailer for Argo, I guffawed at the implausibility of the entire movie. CIA creates SF movie ruse to smuggle people out of Iran? Whatever, Hollywood. I figured it was just a good excuse for the media to fuel itself up for
Argo, and the Inconvenient Truth of Sahar Read More »
Note: Post contains ALL THE SPOILERS for this film. The shift to gritty fantasy over the last couple decades has been a long time coming. I’d argue that those of us who grew up watching heroes like Snake Pliskin and Mad Max and Ellen Ripley but reading about smarmy do-good boys with birthmarks and
Looper: On What Makes a Hero Read More »
If you’ve been hungry to read GOD’S WAR and INFIDEL, but were just waiting for the right time – this is it. In celebration of the release of RAPTURE, the final book in the trilogy, Night Shade is giving away totally FREE ecopies of BOTH GOD’S WAR and INFIDEL. Yes. Both books. Here’s how to get yours: Just send an
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