Yesterday I was at a Super Bowl party with several college friends of mine. (I am not a huge fan of football but I do like the Super Bowl because it often involves friends, food, and drink.) Shortly into the
Friday Round-up
Space/Science Nabokov’s Butterfly Theory Proved Correct NASA spots 54 Potential Life-Friendly Planets Scifi/Fantasy io9’s February Scifi/Fantasy Calendar 12 Revolutionary Uprisings in Scifi 10 Greatest Starships of All Time Utopianism in Steampunk February Fantasy Book Releases Free Read: Chenoire by Suzanne
Using Google Docs as a Writing Tool
Each of us have preferred writing tools – Word, OpenOffice, a good old pen and paper, Write or Die, a typewriter (I love typewriters). They appeal to different people for different reasons. I prefer Word, for the most part, because
Farewell, January
I think, since I obligatorily New Year posted at you, that I am somehow under contract to tell you how January went. Don’t worry, I don’t intend to tell you my goals every month nor tell you how they went.
Friday Round-up
Thank Landsquid it’s Friday, amirite? Space/Science Extreme Planet Makeover (Might be fun for world-building scifi/off-world fantasy) Some confusion over the existence of the Triceratops First One-Fingered Dinosaur Found (It is apparently Dinosaur Week. But that’s okay, because dinosaurs are awesome.) Picture of how
Of Sleep Deprivation and Haiku
I have gotten a total of 7.5 hours of sleep over the past two nights. As such, I am admittedly a little, um, what’s the term – punch-drunk? What does that even mean? Also, wordpress informs me that I have
ABNA Musings
I had a friend say that whenever she saw “ABNA” she thought “ABBA” and that it’s been a very strange week. So the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award submission opened last night. For those of you who don’t stalk the internet
Friday Round-up
Space/Science Discovery Astronaut Hurt in Bike Accident (Poor shuttle astronauts. They are having a bad month.) Darkness on the Edge of the Universe First Mammoth Cloning Experiment Officially Underway (Poor mammoths. They are going to look around and wish they’d just been
Writing with a Partner – Collaborative Editing
To continue our discussion from last week (tl;dr – writing with a partner is awesome, assuming you find the right partner), this week I am going to discuss the theory of editing collaboratively. I say theory because I have not done
Of Turtleducks and Self-Folding Plesiosaurs
To continue our series on strange fictional animals, today I bring you turtleducks and self-folding plesiosaurs. (As evidenced by the title.) Isn’t it interesting how the oddest things catch on? As an example, I like terrible jokes. Jokes like “A
