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• Technology, Writing

  Old habits

  03.17.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I was reading this article and was immediately bugged by the assertion of “the following grammatical rule: there is only ONE space after a period.”  First, it’s nothing to do with grammar; it’s a typographical rule.  Second, I’ve been double-spacing after periods since I learned to type, way back in the wooly mammoth days when we [...]

• Books, Writing

  Into the clouds

  01.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been unable to interest any literary agents in my novel Anti-X.  Perhaps I just don’t know how to write query letters, or else the book is just not right for anyone to represent.  I have had a couple of requests for sample chapters, but nothing more beyond that.  So I am putting the [...]

• Writing

  Stumptown

  08.12.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Nancy Rommelmann writes about tragedy with great skill, in this piece that explores where the latter exploits the former.  Do read it.

• Writing

  A Story

  01.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  What better way to begin a year’s blogging than to share another story with the internets?  Here’s one I dashed off last month, another bit of flash fiction.  It was rejected by the one magazine I submitted it to, and I’ve decided it doesn’t need to accrue the indignities of numerous rejections required to find a [...]

• Writing

  Free Original Content!

  12.28.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yes, here is a very short story I wrote, derived from a impression of Robert Browning’s “A Death in the Desert”.  Since that is a very long poem, obviously my impressions were of a specific point — ‘Was John at all, and did he say he saw?’ is the relevant line, and that’s the mystery [...]

• Writing

  Fat Cat Wins

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Congratulations to Chris Onstad on Achewood being named Time’s Graphic Novel of the Year.  Onstad has a talent for writing that makes me go cross-eyed with envy, but only briefly until I need to relax and uncross my eyes so I can enjoy the strip.

• Writing

  You’ve Got Mail

  12.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Virtue may be its own reward, but the true benefit a writer receives arrives with the affirming correspondence of a reader.  Without this, a writer is merely whispering into the void.

• Writing

  Finif

  11.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In which I receive $5 for writing an “abstract” of a Washington Post column.  In my high school days we might have called that a précis.  Either way, you too could earn a half-sawbuck or several, and I will introduce you to the opportunity by way of my work: http://www.brijit.com/abstract/6352/The-Globe,-Politically-Corrected.  That it was a Geoffrey [...]

• Writing

  Putting me in a new tax bracket

  10.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I got an email this morning alerting me to a paypal transfer of $0.13.  This is a royalty for a short story of mine that is on fictionwise.com.  Images of Scrooge McDuck swimming in money naturally come to mind.

• Writing

  We have a winnah

  09.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tim Pratt has won a Hugo for Best Short Story 2007.  I don’t know Tim, but back when he was editor of Star*Line he accepted a poem of mine.  I haven’t read this particular story, but I have read a lot of  his other work and he is a very good writer indeed.  Much deserved congratulations [...]

Gryffyd Eamonn Dempsey

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