I have a very rocky relationship with my subconscious. On the one hand, my subconscious is the font of my best ideas. Even when I writing something that has come mostly from ego-brain thinking, it inserts cool things, catches ideas that I missed the first time around. It’s sometimes like having a better writer sitting […]
Archive for July 2009
On Richness
Lately, I’ve been trying to identify where my writing really differs from the stuff that’s great, great writing. There are a hell of a lot of places, but I’ve fixated for a while now on this concept of richness. The stories that *really* blow me away exude information and confidence. They are full of a […]
Why You Should Apply to Attend LaunchPad Next Year
TheLaunchPad Astronomy Workshop has been held three times now, each summer in Laramie, Wyoming. This project is the brainchild of Jim Verley and astronomer/SF writer Mike Brotherton. The goal of the workshop is to help expand the audience for science literate fiction and other popular endeavors. This year, we not only had science fiction writers […]
On July 20th, 1969…
I wasn’t even a gleam in my father’s eye. Or, as my mother sometimes claims, my genetic material had yet to be manipulated and prepared for insertion by the grays who would abduct her 7 years later. Still… yay, Moon landing! Had hoped I would see something play out like that in my life time, but […]
