An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I’m starting to suspect my #NaNoWriMo novel won’t be done at 50k…
Of the three times I’ve won NaNo before, two of those novels were just about exactly 50k when done (Nexus Nine & In a Dog’s World). The third is the longest thing I’ve ever written at 97k (Entanglement Bound).
That feeling when you realize you need to change the species of one of the characters in a furry book you’ve half-finished writing, and so you have to go back and make sure you catch Every. Single. Description that will now be wrong and rewrite it to something else.
I really don’t know why The Last Action Hero (1993) got such dismal reviews. It’s a delightful, clever comedy spoof of action movies while also being a solid action movie in its own right.
My more clingy Sheltie thinks that MAYBE the cats are the reason I was out of town for a weekend, even though they were still here, so he gets very upset if any of them get near me.
It truly bewilders me when people argue against AI because if artists can’t support themselves then they’ll have to get other jobs and won’t be able to make art.
That’s not an argument against AI.
That’s an argument against other jobs underpaying for how much time they take. Continue reading “Everyone Should Have the Chance to Make Art”
Last month, we released the 2nd edition of Mary E. Lowd’s iconic short story collection, Welcome to Wespirtech, and now, we’re proud to announce the release of its companion collection, Beyond Wespirtech!
Like the previous collection, Beyond Wespirtech’s 2nd edition includes a new introduction, new stories, and a shiny new cover. In fact, two of the new stories — “Summers on Sylverra” and “The Girl Who Could Hear the Stars Sing” — are exclusive to Beyond Wespirtech and have never been published before! Continue reading “Beyond Wespirtech: 2nd Edition”
The two best long-running time travel shows are Doctor Who and Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap is about a character who is profoundly empathetic; he cares truly and deeply about every person who crosses his path and devotes himself to helping their lives be better, helping them achieve their best. He has to. Or he doesn’t leap. Structurally, he must be endlessly empathetic, caring, and immediately, constantly available. He never gets to say when something happens or who he engages with. His situations are chosen for him by circumstance, and he must accept and deal with circumstance as it comes to him. Continue reading “The Leaper and the Doctor”
Just hurry-scurry trying to work out ways to fix the major plot holes in the book I outlined three years ago that I intend to start writing in half an hour for NaNoWriMo over here…
A book twenty years in the making…
Back in 2003, Mary E. Lowd began writing short stories set in the Entangled Universe, many of them centered on an elite science institute on a desolate moon — WESPIRTECH!
A decade later, a bunch of the Wespirtech stories were collected together in Welcome to Wespirtech, but the story told by that collection was always incomplete. Two of the most important stories about Wespirtech — “Breathing the Air at Wespirtech” and “Lunar Cavity” — hadn’t been written yet. Continue reading “Welcome to Wespirtech: 2nd Edition”
Apologies in advance…
If you’re in a room with someone named Art, and they leave, you’re artless.
If you’re in a room with someone named Ruth, and they leave, you’re ruthless. Continue reading “Terrible Joke”