Words: 539 Not too great progress this time, but I have a story I want to edit before I send it to my writer’s group. Music: KGSR Broadcasts 16. Disc II. I was blown away by Sam Baker and Gurf Morlix’s Slots. Achingly beautiful. I picked up the most recent Asimov’s and so far have read Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Spires of Denon and Norman Spinrad’s essay on Thomas Disch. Although I have been reading science Read more…
Words: 1,525. Music. The KGSR compilation CD Broadcasts volume 16. (Note: I don’t like prologues. I think that the device is overused in fantasy and is relied upon by writers who don’t start in the right place. One exception is the prologue to G.R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire but let’s just say he’s the exception that proves the rule. Anyway, I don’t like prologues but that doesn’t stop me from trying to write Read more…
Words: 1,321 Music: Raising Sand (might have to switch — one album is fine when writing a short story. A novel requires a bit more variety.) Although it’s best not to count one’s chickens before they are hatched, if I can keep up the momentum, I can be finished with the first draft around the end of May.