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June 5, 2014
Picoreview: Maleficent
Picoreview: Maleficent: a worthy re-telling of (specifically Disney’s) Sleeping Beauty, and one that caused me to leave the theatre thinking “Victors write the histories.”
It’s not perfect. There’s a voiceover that I think would have been better done as in-story storytelling instead, but to have done that successfully I think the movie would have needed a PG13/12A rating rather than the PG it got. And–this is something I will almost never say–I thought it *should* have been a PG13 movie.
That...
June 4, 2014
Recent Reads: Redshirts
I’m way behind the curve on reading REDSHIRTS, but it is, as generally advertised, a fun book. It gets a little too caught up in its own cleverness, but mostly it works. I also presume it’s generally more fun to read if you’re a Star Trek fan, but since I am one, I can’t tell if it lacks if you’re not.
Aside from the presumption of more fun/sense if you’re a Star Trek fan, it has too many characters with similar names, which makes it hard to keep track if you’re not really dedicated to it, and...
patreon problem
The payment problem on Patreon was my fault. Twice I set the stupid thing to “patrons only” and totally missed the other place where I was supposed to set it to “paid creation”.
I’m in a really bad mood right now.
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patreon difficulties
So one of the real problems people are having with Patreon is that it’s non-intuitive. Maybe this is partly because my project, crowdfunding a book one chapter at a time, is not actually an ideal one to run via Patreon, but there are definitely problems that go beyond that.
Kickstarter is easy. Kickstarter you give $X and you get #Y in return. One shot and it’s done.
Patreon sets a price-per-creation and then asks for many small donations to achieve that price-per-creation. It’s intended to cat...
what i did :)
As several people have asked, I confess that the weather was utterly miserable last night and so I stayed home and watched two more episodes of s3 Continuum, which continues to be a show that makes me happy. (It has a female lead in a role that 10 years ago almost certainly would have been a guy. She’s a ‘strong’ character in that yes, she’s kick-ass, but she’s also fragile and scared and determined and angry and loses her temper and makes mistakes and-you know, basically acts like a human be...
June 3, 2014
work night
Tonight is a work night and I have no idea what to work on. I’ve finished revisions on STONE’S THROE, so I don’t have to worry about that. The next major project up on my docket is my nephew’s book, so that would obviously be the smart thing to work on, but I’m in one of those headspaces where I’d like to do something quick and fun just to get something *written* so that I feel all “woo go me look how much I got done!” :)
I have a short story to write that would fit that bill, except I haven’t...
June 2, 2014
Ah! Chance!
Ah!
Fernando Granea, one of my Take A Chance artists, sent me this for my birthday!
*happy dances*! :)
I have got so much comic stuff I want to do. Should be doing. Need to do. In my copious free time. Ai.
(Seriously. A Chance-world prequel. A concurrent-to-Chance story. ElectriCity. That girl-and-her-dragon idea from years ago. I just wish I knew what the hell to do with *Chance*…)
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Oh, Jay.
I was supposed to write a book with Jay Lake.
Back in the day–I think, in fact, that it was the first (and somehow possibly only, but no, that can’t be right) time we met in real life, at World Fantasy in Saratoga Springs–this whole discussion about the speed with which Jay and I wrote came up. We got this idea to do some Stunt Writing: we’d get together someday and write a book together, ideally in the front window of, say, Borderlands in San Francisco, with a giant screen above our heads so...
May 30, 2014
SHAMAN RISES winners!
The winners for the Walker Papers Favourite Moment contest are as follows:
On Facebook:
Melissa Presti
Kat Bonson
Sam Dailey
On Twitter:
@Antiqueight
@amelia_book
@coyotedreams
On mizkit.com:
Kaat Van der Jonckheyd
Julie Fore
Sam Berthiaume
On LJ:
idancewithlife
ikontinct
On G+
Rochelle Herrick
On Goodreads:
Nikki
I tried to pick all-different moments, and I have to say, guys, this was the best contest I’ve ever run. You all remminded me of moments I loved in the books, and many of you chose moments I’d total...
May 29, 2014
almost there!
I’m working on revisions for STONE’S THROE, and have successfully revised the opening chapters into vast improvement. Better yet, though (because I’d always known what I needed to do with those chapter), I’ve figured out what I need to do to fix the other problematic part of the book, and am now proceeding to do that.
I’m all curious how many readers here actually participated in the Kickstarter to get this (it was the Spirit of the Century project 2 years ago, and how many are waiting to buy...
