Words    Words    Words

The Dream Café Weblog

Entries Tagged as 'Writing'

Help us Dr. Internet — Emacs Edition

April 11th, 2009 · 40 Comments

UPDATE: FIxed!!! Thanks for everyone’s help. See comments if you’re curious about the whole meandering process to success.
Hey everyone, Kit here. Today with the help of my geeky friend, Diana, we overhauled both of Steve’s machines, including his broken Linux box which he uses to write on and check his email.
The good news is that [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Steve · Writing

CC Fiction: Rescue Ride Part 3

January 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The third part of Reesa Brown’s Rescue Ride is now available.
Cheers,
Kit

[Read more →]

Tags: Continuous Coast · Reesa · Writing

CC Fiction: Rescue Ride, Part 2

January 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Part 2 of Rescue Ride is now available. Written by Dream Café’s Reesa Brown, it is part of the Continuous Coast shared world. Enjoy!
Kit

[Read more →]

Tags: Continuous Coast · Reesa · Writing

CC Fiction: Reesa’s Rescue Ride, Part 1

January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Part 1 of the latest fiction from Dream Café’s Reesa Brown is now available. Rescue Ride, part of our Continuous Coast project, is the story of one of the greatest adventures of Mikasa Rider, leader of the new generation of Gurge Riders in the city of Port Outreach. Enjoy!

[Read more →]

Tags: Continuous Coast · Reesa · Writing

Pamela Dean on Writing

December 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Pam gave a talk to some Unitarians, and reproduced in her LJ.  It’s, like, Cool Stuff.  Find it here.

[Read more →]

Tags: Friends · Steve · Writing

New book started

December 8th, 2008 · 77 Comments

Got started on the next Vlad novel.  I’m pretty sure this one will be Tiassa.  13 pages so far.

[Read more →]

Tags: Book Discussions · Books · Steve · Writing

A 12-step program?

December 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Do you, friends, have a problem?
Do you find yourself frittering away hours at a time putting useless words on a screen, or, heaven-forfend, a page, when you could be washing dishes or waxing cats?
Do you find yourself thinking about writing when you are doing other things?
Have you given up social engagements in order to write [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Writing

Revisiting an old and whacky theory

November 22nd, 2008 · 35 Comments

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Politics · Steve · Writing

Yay Me

October 31st, 2008 · 35 Comments

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. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Steve · Writing

More Shadow Unit Reruns

October 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Man, I am so ready for the next season!  I was watching a rerun this afternoon, and there’s is this scene in the bullpen.   Wile Lau and Haf are bantering in the foreground, in the background Rhyes drops a folder in front of Brady, and Brady looks at the folder, looks at Rhyes, then just [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Friends · Media · Steve · Writing

Return to Home