Thanksgiving Advent, Day Two: My Colleagues

Continuing the post-WFC theme: I don't exactly work with anybody, per se -- writing being a fairly solitary task and all -- but man, my fellow writers are pretty damn cool people.

Sure, not all of them; some are boring blowhards or unrepentant jerks. But the percentage of them with whom I can have cool conversations is remarkably high. It's a function of the job, really: writers in general, and sf/f writers in particular, are prone to knowing random nifty things, and "random nifty things" is one of my favorite things to talk about. As mrissa and alecaustin and zellandyne and I were commenting at lunch on Sunday, we don't do the small talk thing very well; introduce us to somebody new, and if we get our way, within five minutes we'll be riffing on archaeology or exoplanets or historical methods of smallpox vaccination.

I may go months at a time without talking to any of them in person, but I look forward to those occasions when we all get together.