Year: 2007

AnthologyBuilder Lives

Sometimes all you need is a good idea. Okay, and the vision to realize it is a good idea. And the skills to turn the idea into a working website. And the perseverance to keep at it until it works. Nancy Fulda, writer, Baen’s editor, fellow Codexian, has them all. That’s why AnthologyBuilder.com is now […]

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50,000 And Change

lj-mood: proud Done! A little before 4pm this afternoon, I typed the last few words to bring my word count to 50,000. Another 20 minutes and I had the word count up to a number the NaNoWriMo web site interpreted as 50,070. (There’s a strange discrepancy between my own word count and that of the […]

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The Sound of Breaking Glass

lj-mood: thrilled Over the last couple of days, working on my NaNoWriMo project felt like work. So much like work, in fact, that I’m thousands of words behind on the easiest possible production schedule. So tonight, instead of pounding out more words that feel like work, I dug into my store of old, abandoned and […]

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Diamonds Are A Guy’s Best Friend

It has been more than two years since my last story sale. But I guess I did something right when I rewrote Diamond Sharks according to the excellent suggestions of the Leading Edge Magazine developmental editing team. A little over a week after submitting the rewrite, I got their emailed response. The subject line was […]

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So Far, So Good

Is it morbid to call getting fired serendipitous? Last Friday, in the last of a series of discussions with my employer about my future with the company, we concluded that there is no such thing as my future with the company. Having worked for him as a product manager (for a failed product), a project […]

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Groundbreaking

It is confusing how participating in NaNoWriMo can be so deceptively easy and so gut wrenchingly hard at the same time. I’ve worked out a schedule based on the actual hours I have available this month, and getting to 50,000 words by the end of November means I’ll have to pound out 600 words each […]

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Positive Feedback

A while back, I mentioned that Leading Edge Magazine wanted to put Diamond Sharks through what they call a ‘developmental editing process’. As editor Audrey Gonzales explained in her email, this meant their DE department would provide me with a list of editorial suggestions for the story, and encourage me to submit a rewrite based […]

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National Novel Writing Month

This November I’ll be trying to write an entire novel* in a month. Along with about 100,000 other writers and would-be writers, I’m participating in the NaNoWriMo this year. The National Novel Writing Month is a world-wide event created to stimulate writers by giving them a reason to do something very unreasonable: focus on word […]

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Old News

Somehow, I completely forgot to report on the latest from submissionland: Though I thought I’d wait for the Codex Halloween Contest result before sending out Toby’s trophies, I suddenly realized there was no reason to. It should be at Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine by now. I’m not entirely sure if it’s their cup of tea […]

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HomeWorks Manager Crawls Back Under His Rock

When we came home in January to find serious damage to our new bathroom, we congratulated ourselves on our foresight in hiring our housekeeper legally. We’d hired her from a house care organization that shall remain nameless, whose hiring conditions included liability insurance against just this kind of thing. All we had to do, we […]

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