Just finished the first draft of Your Itch. Starting revisions tomorrow, I think. I have no idea what I think of this one; have to wait until the revisions to see how it feels.
Entries from August 2008
Done!
August 24th, 2008 · 45 Comments
Follow-up on health stuff and money stuff
August 24th, 2008 · 13 Comments
I’m pretty much okay now, assuming nothing else goes wrong. A bunch of you sent me money, which helped more than I can say. When we posted a while ago asking for a loan, Matthew Fischer said, “I think you are very likely to get 150 fans to donate $100 in exchange for exclusive access [...]
Book!
August 19th, 2008 · 11 Comments
I received my contributor’s copy of this year’s Triangulation anthology in the mail the other day. (Triangulation: Taking Flight) It is very exciting to see my story (”The Reap Assessors”) in it! It’s my second short story sale but due to how these things work out, it’s actually the first story to [...]
Golden Books
August 18th, 2008 · 97 Comments
Gene Wolfe coined the term ‘golden book’ to refer to a book that utterly opens up your head, stirs around your brain, and changes how you look at the world — I think it was singular in his coining, the one book that changes you, but I think many of us have several over the [...]
Tags: Books
Happy Birthday to two Charming Daughters
August 17th, 2008 · 13 Comments
On this day in 1982 were born Aliera and Carolyn Brust, who came into the world to brighten it for the rest of us. Soon they’ll be able drink, and I’ll have to talk to them about S-E-X. In the meantime, happy birthday!
Armadillocon
August 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Off to Austin for Armadillocon. Hope to see some of you there!
Tags: Conventions · Life · Steve
Hey, you got a band?
August 10th, 2008 · 18 Comments
We’re looking for some bands to help us engage in some viral marketing . Are you in a band? Do you have a friend who is in one? Post a link to your music here, or else send it to Kit at dreamcafe dot com, and we’ll give it a listen. Ideally this should involve [...]
Again with the rewrite
August 10th, 2008 · 18 Comments
Yet again, I have to start a full rewrite before finishing the first draft. This is unusual for me–I like to get to the end before doing major revisions. But all of a sudden PLOT showed up in the book, so what can I do?
The good news is that this is a much less significant [...]
On the baking of bread
August 4th, 2008 · 48 Comments
So, we have this bread-making machine, used by Kit. In an LJ post by Txanne, we learn that many believe that using such a machine produces bread that isn’t as good as hand-made. I’m curious. Is there actually a reason for this? I mean, a reason that Alton Brown would find reasonable?
The Great Ice Cream Cone Conundrum
August 2nd, 2008 · 19 Comments
There are three sorts of ice cream cone: the cup cone, the sugar cone, and the waffle cone. Let us ignore the waffle cone, because they didn’t have them when I was a kid. The cup cone has two advantages: you can set it down, and it is better for holding soft-serve ice cream. The [...]