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- If I finish my work today (unlikely), I will make a snowman. And brownies.
- Awesome vintage photos for those with a soft spot for polar bears: ping.fm/1aZ2Q
- Best headline of the day: "Hollywood counters reality with decade of escapism"
- The Daily Show has a brilliant India segment today
- Adopt a terrorist? Yes, as in "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." bit.ly/8z6SDu
Go to Baen's Universe to read "Salvaging Scottwell," my story about an obsolete police dog robot that gets an upgrade with unintended consequences to the Powers That Be: http://baens-universe...
Excerpt:
Max woke up inside his kennel, unplugged his tail from the wall, and ran an automatic systems check. Recharging his battery had taken a half-hour longer than last month. He connected to the BigDog network so that he could send an error report about the battery. The automated reply told him that his error report had been filed, and a handler would contact him if any further action was required. The last handler contact recorded in Max's memory log was three years old.
He limped to the door of the jailhouse. His right third leg had broken down two years ago. It had taken three weeks for his movement pattern to functionally reform, but he still limped. His speed was a fraction of his original specifications. His right second leg couldn't provide the same motive power. It had been designed for stability, not speed.
He stepped out into Scottwell neighborhood to begin his patrol. His tail wagged once. Scottwell was more than just the neighborhood that he guarded; it was as much a part of him as his paws. When he kept himself and his neighborhood protected and well-maintained, he was a Good Boy.
His tail drooped. He hadn't been a Good Boy for a long time.
Read more.
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Some combination of my mule-headed stubbornness, devil's-advocate tendencies, and "I can write anything"-itis results in my brain clicking over into plot-generating mode as soon as somebody issues a challenge, or doubts that a story type can be done well, or mentions how rare a certain kind of story is. That's how I got a Highlander parody involving the evolution of mallows nesting in my story idea file. Can't somebody just pay me for my plots?
On the other hand, looking at the snow outside, I'm quite happy I'm working from home tomorrow.
- Quite sad Pandora doesn't have "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Fish-Men" ping.fm/1OqOp
- The "up to 12 inches" snow has begun.
- He stretched out one hand and placed it on the glass. "Kathleen," he said. His voice was raw. "Katy." The manikin stopped still. #nwm
Hi there Abra, just a breeze of thought, here, my initial impression
of your story; I guess more having to do with substance than its
technical layout.
To let go with feeling or to thaw and understand the ice of the
heart, so encapsulated and so cold, sometimes hard to define yet
structured language can be as ice, not allowing those deeper
meanings to appear and prosper amid the warming sun-lit art of paper
and pen, I see a young girl, frozen by image and transparent in her
attempt to understand and identify with her immediate surroundings.
( Read more... )
* Performance advice from a poet: http://inktea.com/2009/12/07/performanc
* Posted writing logs.
* Meh freewriting.
* NanoWriMo (though it's past the WriMo now).
* Redmarked "Writ in Sunshine and Snowflakes" AKA "Ice Mother"
- Snapbird searches Twitter by user beyond the 10-day Twitter archive limit: ping.fm/V7Q90
- Dear Editors, Please email your contributors when their story's out *so they can help with publicity.* Your job's hard; let us help.
- A small crowd had formed when suddenly a scuffle erupted. A haggard young man pushed his way in to collapse in front of the display. #nwm
* http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/20
* Top Ten Reasons Your Editor Doesn't Love What Your Critique Group Does: http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/200
12/03/2009 - Thursday, no day job
* NanoWriMo
* Posted writing log.
* Penthius freewriting about voodoo and slavery and--pirates. Am confused.
* Processed "A Phoenix By Any Other Name" acceptance by Short-Story.me!
* Processed "These Things Take Time" form letter rejection by New Myths.
* Processed "Charity From a Thief" personal rejection (with specific editorial feedback!) from Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Will be making edits to use feedback before submitting story elsewhere.
* Processed "Road of Dreams" personal rejection from Screams and Dreams Anthology and editor's proposed non-paying acceptance from Liquid Imagination. (I'll try paying markets first, though I do like the way they mesh art and writing--it's always awesome to see what art people think goes with my stories.)
But!
I took a bit of time in the afternoon to get a Christmas tree! (The annual getting-a-Christmas-tree fight had already been settled.) So now I have a lovely tree settling in my living room, after much kerfuffle getting it screwed into the stand in a stable fashion.
So happy.
- I would trade my house for this one. Please? ping.fm/lunbj
- - Going to work while the moon is still high in the purple sky. + Pretty moon!
- That stormtrooper must be from Wisconsin. (Brewster Rockit) ping.fm/sOkJZ
- Big fluffy snowflakes dancing around outside the 5th floor windows looking out over the brick and glass warehouse district.
- His workhouse sweetheart was the puppeteer for a panorama display of a young girl's adventures wandering the world in her new shoes. #nwm
- Good thing I checked with Phil *before* sending a birthday card to his dead grandma.
- The homechulus altered the story for the watcher. If a libertine, she'd nearly lose her virtue. If a nun, she'd pray in a cathedral. #nwm
* Read Writer's Digest newsletter.
* NanoWriMo--getting to redescribing the bit from Vicesteed.
* Penthius freewriting.
12/01/2009 - Tuesday, no job
* Posted writing log.
* Penthius freewriting
* Wrote NanoWriMo. November may be over, but the story isn't. I'll keep going until it's done.
* Red-marked Vicesteed ch. 22
* Processed Fantasy Magazine's personal and remarkably speedy "very close, but not quite" rejection of "Haunts of Hill Crossing."
- It's freeeezing at work. Purple fingernails. Next time I'm bringing fleece, fingerless gloves, and microwaveable grain bags.
- Prescription: Nature. (SciAm) ping.fm/obE6g
- Might have just arranged to purchase a bootleg of Ninja Assassin. Enjoying the uncertainty.
- The first two cabbies knew naught and doubted that anything more exciting than a spoilt child in a tantrum existed on River Road. #nwm
- Why yes, I need a t-shirt about the dark side of Santa's myth: ping.fm/UmSoL
- The third remembered. "There was a nasty scene. Some poor sod in love with a girl in a workhouse recognized her aspect selling shoes." #nwm
- November may be over, but "Walking Out of the Machine" isn't. I'll keep going until it's done. Then there will be rewriting. #nwm
- Mpls library book/DVD/CD sale--$.25/item 12/05-12/11, $2/bag 12/12-12/19. ping.fm/dDYtL
- Oddly enough, 90% of the time, when I see a submission response that starts with "Thank you," it's a rejection.
- Got one of these in my email today. Bad phish! ping.fm/BzmlU
* How to respond to a manuscript critique/editorial letter: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/200
11/29/2009 - Sunday
* Read Duotrope and Critters newsletters and updated market list from them.
* Filled out questionnaire for Spec the Halls listing at Ralan.
* Updated bibliography document to add recent sales "Salvaging Scottwell" and "Missing You In Pieces," processed submission and document tracking spreadsheets, and updated Critters bio, LJ profiles,
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penthius freewriting entries, Facebook profile, website bio and bibliography sections. Every writer should keep a list of where to update when stories get accepted/published.* Processed "Haunts of Hill Crossing" form letter rejection from Way of the Wizard Anthology (and by extension F&SF Magazine).
* Updated submission order for "Haunts of Hill Crossing" and submitted to Fantasy Magazine. Marveled at their submission process and stated turnaround time.
* Updated submission order for "A Phoenix By Any Other Name" and submitted to Short-Story.me!
* Emailed market that hadn't yet responded to a March submission, withdrawing "Demons of Disease" from consideration. Updated submission order and sent to the Timelines Anthology. Hope that cryogenic freezing counts as time-travel. Processed receipt acknowledgment.
* Updated status of "They'll Seal Any Leak, Guaranteed!" I'm so bad at processing ones that are "we'll tell you by X if we want it--otherwise you won't hear from us" but I was worried I'd have to start submitting out my literary stories. Shudder.
* Posted writing log.
* Did NanoWriMo--and I'm not too happy with how that experiment is working out. Will have to do massive rewrite and am not even done with the story yet.
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