Sarah Monette's Blog, page 92
June 6, 2009
Happy birthday, jaylake!
Happy birthday,
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jaylake!
jaylake!
June 5, 2009
Boosting the signal
I don't know
cpolk personally, but she is a good friend of a good friend, and one heck of a writer (here are two of her stories: "If One Should Pass This Way Again" and "Bright Wings and Wax"), and her roommate has just totally, EPICALLY screwed the pooch.
If you can contribute anything, right this minute Chelsea could use the help. ETA: FYI, her PayPal account cannot do credit card transactions.
cpolk personally, but she is a good friend of a good friend, and one heck of a writer (here are two of her stories: "If One Should Pass This Way Again" and "Bright Wings and Wax"), and her roommate has just totally, EPICALLY screwed the pooch.If you can contribute anything, right this minute Chelsea could use the help. ETA: FYI, her PayPal account cannot do credit card transactions.
R.I.P. David Eddings
David Eddings died on Tuesday.
I read and reread the Belgariad as a teenager. The first fantasy story I wrote, when I was twelve, was an homage to Eddings so blatant that I think the correct word is really "rip-off." I'm careful not to reread Eddings now, just as I'm careful not to reread Heinlein, because I know I'll only see the glaring problems, and not the things I loved.
But I loved those books, and I daydreamed about having friends like Barak and Silk.
Rest in peace, Mr. Eddings, and thank yo
I read and reread the Belgariad as a teenager. The first fantasy story I wrote, when I was twelve, was an homage to Eddings so blatant that I think the correct word is really "rip-off." I'm careful not to reread Eddings now, just as I'm careful not to reread Heinlein, because I know I'll only see the glaring problems, and not the things I loved.
But I loved those books, and I daydreamed about having friends like Barak and Silk.
Rest in peace, Mr. Eddings, and thank yo
June 2, 2009
a couple more links
Slacktivist explains how the evangelical Right got to the current point of either condoning murder or disowning their own rhetoric.
And something Ursula linked to yesterday, but which--well, if you have an opinion about late-term abortion, one way or the other, you may want to read this article from 2005, a first-person account of undergoing a late-term abortion which also talks very clearly about exactly what a late-term abortion is, and isn't (hint: it isn't what President Bush told us it was),
And something Ursula linked to yesterday, but which--well, if you have an opinion about late-term abortion, one way or the other, you may want to read this article from 2005, a first-person account of undergoing a late-term abortion which also talks very clearly about exactly what a late-term abortion is, and isn't (hint: it isn't what President Bush told us it was),
June 1, 2009
pure frivolity
'80s hits reinterpreted as ragtime.
And you can segue very nicely, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, into the Literal Video Version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
And you can segue very nicely, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, into the Literal Video Version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
a link
to
ursulav on the murder of George Tiller, and as is often the case with Ursula, she's said what I feel, only so much more articulately.
ursulav on the murder of George Tiller, and as is often the case with Ursula, she's said what I feel, only so much more articulately.
May 31, 2009
Haiku Earring Party
If you participated in the Haiku Earring Party at WisCon this year,
elisem would like to hear from you.
elisem would like to hear from you.
this is a new one
I get story ideas from dreams fairly often ("Straw" is a readily available example, if you're curious), but this is the first time I've had an insight into narrative craft.
The idea that a narrative is a series of questions is not a new one. It's another way to think of genre, if you're approaching it from the academic rather than the marketing angle: a genre can be defined as the list of questions a story chooses to answer. (Notice that it isn't the story's answers that necessarily define its ge
The idea that a narrative is a series of questions is not a new one. It's another way to think of genre, if you're approaching it from the academic rather than the marketing angle: a genre can be defined as the list of questions a story chooses to answer. (Notice that it isn't the story's answers that necessarily define its ge
May 30, 2009
Alaya Johnson, Moonshine
Closer to the publication date of Alaya Johnson's novel Moonshine (coming out from Thomas Dunne Books in 2010), I will post a review. For now, I just want to gloat unbecomingly about the fact that I got to read it early.
::gloats::
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::gloats::
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May 29, 2009
on Friday, the internet is full of things
arcaedia on the first five pages. What she says is why, when I do novel-writing workshops, the first five pages--or fewer, even--are what we focus on.Scientists are giving Rubik's Cubes to octopuses.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on "The Importance of Being Politically Correct."
heresluck, this xkcd is so totally about you. <3Do Your Own Adventure w/ Sue Teller. Give her a chance to get going before you make up your mind.
