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Me: Hey, Jenn, I just finished the copy of Zelazny’s Guns of Avalon that you loaned me. My buddy Jenn: Great! How did you like it? Me: It was cool. Zelazny does in 200 pages what all these other writers do in a ten book series. Though, if we put Martin into that category… I’d […]

I’m taking tomorrow off work to do some less distraction-filled fiction writing. Just got back from lunch, where I was told that my credit card had expired ::insert a moment of mind-numbing terror here:: Gave over my bank card. Unfortunately, my bank card only had $10 on it, and lunch came to $11.53. To my

Yesterday was the third day in a row of fighting classes, and I still haven’t managed to shake this cough of mine, and it appears to be culminating in the loss of my voice (this happens at least twice a year, during the changing of the major seasons). So at about 40 minutes into class

There really are people with jobs like this. People who get paychecks for just… coming into work. I thought this was an illusion. It is not. I haven’t really done any work since June. My office space looks a bit like my college dorm room did, only the sticky notes affixed to my computer have

Just got a nibble from one of the NY agents. The secret is to keep rewriting your query letter again, and again, and again. The more the query looks like the inside flap of a China Mieville novel, the better. Seriously. Sending 50 pages. Let’s see what happens with *this* set…

Today’s a writing day. Cleaned up and sent out some stories that have been sitting, bumping up my stories-out count from 3 to 6 (paltry, I know – my highest count was 21 stories out, and that was the year I sold three stories. A good example of the Law of Averages). I have several

Here’s a great idea: put cosmetics vending machines in schools, so ten year old girls can have instant access to enhancing their sex appeal and learning how to be “real women” early! I wonder what would happen if boys started using them, instead? Boys wearing make-up would be totally hot. Think, Velvet Goldmine. Maybe they’d

So, picked up my obligatory reject from Realms of F. for my abortion story, “Two Girls.” Though Carina gave me the Blue Form of Death, she included a substantial handwritten note saying she really liked the story, but it had no fantasy element, and I might want to try women’s studies mags. I had to

Sunday. Took the overgrown herb garden of doom to task. The biggest of my basil plants is now over 2ft tall. I didn’t know basil *grew* to be 2ft tall… Repotted the cilantro, which has proven to be far more delicate than I realized (there’s a reason it comes *with* the roots at the grocery

Had a mixed boxing class yesterday – had a great partner, was in the mood to hit the shit out of stuff, and felt like I was going to burn and fall over at the end. The “mixed” part was the “burn and fall over at the end” part. Our MA school was closed on