Topic started by request. I’m about a third of the way through the first draft of Tiassa. Or, as I affectionately call it, Hadassah.
— Hadizsákmányapa
Category: Writing
Pamela Dean on Writing
Pam gave a talk to some Unitarians, and reproduced in her LJ. It’s, like, Cool Stuff. Find it here.
New book started
Got started on the next Vlad novel. I’m pretty sure this one will be Tiassa. 13 pages so far.
Revisiting an old and whacky theory
Many years ago at Fourth Street, a bunch of us sat around for too many hours and came up with the following theory: From the perspective of society, the function of art* and the function of science are identical; the difference is that the final product of science is a theory, the final product of art is an artifact.
Whenever it comes up, this theory seems to produce interesting discussion, so I am running it up the mixed metaphor to see if the cliche licks it up.
*A somewhat restrictive definition of art; excluding, for example, the performing arts.
–Steve
Yay Me
I happened to notice a comment in my LJ from some months ago pointing out that last September marked 25 years since the publication of Jhereg. 25 years. Weeee!
Overall, the best summation of my career so far is something Jerry Garcia said in response to a question about the annoyances of his lifestyle. He said something like, the idea that people are willing to pay money to be entertained by me is so amazing, it would be really small of me to complain about any part of it.
Yeah. Like that.
I love this life.
Thank you, people, for making it possible.
Steve