Jason Córdova's Blog, page 73
August 29, 2011
Shakespeare
So today Sarah Hoyt is talking about outlining over at her blog. It's a fascinating piece that really can help aspiring authors (if they're really looking for help rather than finding a medium to bitch to about how the publishing world is out to get them) and actually made me stop and think about my own outlining process.
…crap. I forgot to mail out the contract for Crouching Seal, Sleeping Dragon this morning while out. Gah. Will do so when I go back out again…
More deadlines approaching...
August 25, 2011
Laying Waste To My Sanity
Exhaustion is laying waste to my sanity.
This is exciting. I have named it Godzilla.
Exhaustion, not my sanity.
Now that I am (more or less) settled into my new place, I can start doing Shiny Book Review once more. I'll have to contact all those poor publishers who had been holding off sending us more books to review (oh, woe is them, right?) and let them know that we are back fully and raring to go.
I discovered that Doc Travis (Dr. Travis S. Taylor), a good friend of mine, is getting another...
August 22, 2011
Pic
Having some fun with the new phone. It takes pictures. I leave you with this for now.
August 19, 2011
Test Post
Just trying out my website features with my iPhone. I have it set up so that it looks decent if you follow this on a smart phone or tablet.
This is sooooo dang cool.
August 18, 2011
Wraithkin Society
So I was doing some more thinking today about Wraithkin and the series as a whole, and comparing a lot of it to today's society. I wasn't pleased with my thought process.
Someone asked on Facebook the other day "When did you decide to be straight?", in regards to an argument about whether or not someone chooses to be gay or is born that way. I realized that forcing gays to be spayed and neutered like anyone else in my universe who is not genetically Perfect would be reasonable, due to the...
August 16, 2011
Memorably Bloody Death
I still don't have the internet at my new place, so for now I'm forced to come into work 4 hours early to get some work done. It's not bad (free drinks) but still, hard to work on some stuff while in public. The right ambience is hard to achieve while you're listening to some Nouveau Paris music.
The Wikipedia Wars continue. I really don't have the time or inclination to continue fighting facts against a consensus. A consensus, as someone once pointed out, could make 8+8=14. Just because a...
August 12, 2011
In Need of Redshirts
"I gave everything, and all I got was a lousy 'Thank you for your service' letter."
"Better than a closed casket funeral and a flag for momma."
"…point. But would getting paid on time be too much to ask?"
"And where you going to spend the money? I haven't seen any sign of a store or something like that since we docked at Belleza Sutil."
"We're in a war zone now, doos. Bound to be a whorehouse or something 'round here, right?
– Excerpt from Wraithkin, © 2011 Jason Cordova
Can you see what I'm...
August 9, 2011
Whoosh!
London's burning, and Tehran is asking for the London police to exercise restraint during the riots.
…seriously, I did not pull this off of The Onion.
Irony aside (or is that not irony? I get so confused…), I'm currently bogged down with writing. Updating here is becoming difficult as I prepare to move into my new apartment (yay!), bought a new bed (boo!… yay!), and spent pretty much all of my savings (BOOOO!!!) in doing so. Posting will definitely be sporadic the next few weeks as I get the...
August 6, 2011
Today's Word Is — DUH
Monster Hunter International
Damn you, Larry Correia!
My posts don't usually start off as kindly as this, but this morning I had this horrible epiphany for Wraithkin, due to a Larry Correia (author of Monster Hunter International, Monster Hunter Vendetta, Monster Hunter Alpha, and so on) post I happened across from a year or so ago. It was basically some writing advice about SF weapons that I'd somehow missed. It was enlightening and interesting (as most of Larry's blog posts are), until I got ...
August 4, 2011
Work and Richify Me
I love the spam comments which don't make it past my filter on here.
My favorite one is "+1!! Luv your site, click here to get better". I just need to know. Get better at what? Better plusses? Better… food? Booze? Women? I get confuzzled, though it's still entertaining.
A day off… yay! I'm going to be lazy and write fiction for a change instead of work-work. I was told that if I wanted to be all richified and stuff, I would have to rewrite some of my books. Okay, fine. Richify me.
(That's not a ...
