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Beginning the countdown

January is a time to look forward to the rest of the year. One of the things we look forward to each year, is Balticon! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Balticon is the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention put on each year by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, or BSFS. Balticon is held each year on Memorial Day weekend in Hunt Valley, Maryland. So, in January, we start making plans…

We’ll be going back to Balticon again this year. I hopereturn as a panelist for the New Media t...

Balticon 46 Wrap-up – Part 4, Late Night New Media Meet and Greet

I am back with another piece of theBalticon 46 Wrap-up. We recorded this piece of podcasting goodnessat 11 PM on Friday night and it is the Late Night New Media Meet and Greet. In this episode, moderator Grig (Punkie) Larson talks with Trish Wilson (who writes as Elizabeth A. Black), Paul Elard Cooley, and myself about what we’re doing in the world of new media. And, yes, with a late night show, this episode isn’t work safe!

Show notes below the cut.

Show notes:

Herding cats.
What is this?
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Projects for January

A week has passed since my last update, and I haven’t been entirely idle. I have, however, narrowed down the scope of the projects that I’ve been working on to something more manageable. In 2012, I managed to start a number of new projects, but I didn’t really succeed in finishing off any of the ones that had carried over from 2011. Soooo… top priority right now is finish off existing projects before starting any of the new ones.

Fortunately, it looks like I just finished off one of those proj...

Balticon 46 Wrap-up – Part 3, A Touch of Slash – Rule 34 and the Podiosphere

I’ve gotten very far behind in a lot of projects, among them, this recap fromBalticon 46. But what better way to kick off the new year than to move forward with the Wrap-up? So, here is Part 3, a Panel from Friday Night entitled A Touch of Slash – Rule 34 and the Podiosphere.This is from the New Media Track on Friday night at 10 PM. The panel was moderated by Nobilis Reed, and featured Jhada R. Addams, Veronica Giguere, and myself. This panel DOES contain explicit materiel, so don’t listen to...

Baltcon 46 Wrap-up – Part 3, A Touch of Slash – Rule 34 and the Podiosphere

I’ve gotten very far behind in a lot of projects, among them, this recap fromBalticon 46. But what better way to kick off the new year than to move forward with the Wrap-up? So, here is Part 3, a Panel from Friday Night entitled A Touch of Slash – Rule 34 and the Podiosphere.This is from the New Media Track on Friday night at 10 PM. The panel was moderated by Nobilis Reed, and featured Jhada R. Addams, Veronica Giguere, and myself. This panel DOES contain explicit materiel, so don’t listen to...

A word (or two) on Copyright

Today I finished a book that was recommended to me by J. Daniel Sawyer a long time ago. I think the actual recommendation was on an episode of the Galley Table almost two years ago. Dan is an author and screenwriter who has been around the block for a while. Having come at writing from the screenwriting side of things, he has a good practical view of the business of writing. And let’s face it, there are a lot more people out there who will tell you how to write than there are telling you how...

Gunning for short fiction

Yes, I went there.

So…. It’s been two weeks since I’ve been able to post an update here, so I’m past due to provide you one. NaNoWriMo has ended, and while The Bright Lands still has a LOT of work to be done to it, I have to take a step back from it for a little while. If you’ve been following along with my Twitter or Facebook feeds, you may have noticed that I’ve put a fair bit of effort behind promoting the IndieGoGo fundraiser for the Way of the Gun anthology. That fundraiser has ended now,...

#NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 21 – 30, Woohoo! I failed!

Why am I celebrating failure? Well, I am going to explain that, but first, I think I’d better catch you up.

When last we spoke, it was the 20th, and I’d hit 32,067 words after three straight days of over 2500 words a day. On the 21st, we set out to visit my father for Thanksgiving, my wife driving, and me in the passenger seat writing away. I managed to get in 1191 words on the trip. I probably would have done better, but the trip wasn’t very long. Then, once we arrived, family tended to get i...

#NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 20

I was surprisingly productive yesterday! I got home from work in excellent time, and despite feeling tired all day, I was wide awake when I got home. Seeing that the nap I had expected to claim me was no where to be found, I decided to put my wakefulness to productive use and started writing!

By the time my wife came home from her errands, I had a good 800 words down and was speeding rapidly towards a thousand. This section was part of Casey’s being tested by the Primus, and the images were co...

#NaNoWriMo 2012, Day 19

Another late night of writing last night. After getting home from work, I thought I was going to collapse and get some sleep, but my wife kept me up and engaged long enough to get through the post-work slump. We had dinner, and by the time we were done, I was fully awake and she was exhausted. So, while she went off to nap, I sat down to write.

The first thousand words seemed to be difficult to come by, but once I powered through those the going became easier. I kept up my mantra of “just anot...