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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
As seen on Tim Pratt’s website: “The work-in-progress meme. Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us […]
After having to go into work for the morning, this afternoon I sold some CDs and plowed some of the proceeds into these purchases: Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Kruder & Dorfmeister, G-Stoned The Vandals, Fear of a Punk Planet Hoodoo Gurus, Mars Needs Guitars Napalm Death, Smear Campaign Cypress […]
“In the small hours of the night, I was woken by the noise of a cat trying to vomit on my head. Thank God I was able to fall asleep again.” Thankfully in this case said vomit did not land on me and the mess was contained and abated by swift de-contamination techniques.
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