For those who aren’t averse to spiders, a great link of links from Arthropod Ecology Frog enthusiasts: follow @MyFrogCroaked (Jonathan Kolby) on Twitter. Lots of images of gorgeous tropical (New World so far) frogs and other amphibs. Interested in coastal waters and the societies that live near/on them? Follow @hakaimagazine on Twitter. Scientist and writer Read More…
Month: February 2016
Progress Report
The new ending that used to be somewhere else entirely has been grafted onto the old one, and though it looks a little strange now (“What is that crocodile head doing on that sheep?” the observer might ask) it’s all coming together. Once I saw the legs off the sheep, stretch it lengthways, paint the Read More…
RSS Feeds
There’ve been questions about RSS feed(s). On the sidebar on the right, down at the bottom, there’s a section headed “Meta.” There they are. I feel really…unobservant, if not stupid, for not noticing that before. My web guru, when I asked her to add RSS, pointed out they already existed. Hope this helps!
Tuesday Toolkit for Writers
Every person has a toolkit, a set of skills (physical, mental, emotional) that they use to navigate their life. When you learn something–anything–it becomes part of that toolkit, and the more tools you have, the more of life’s challenges you can handle with less strain than the person without those skills, that knowledge, that attitude. Read More…
Monday Science: Thanks, Twitter
Writers must read, and science fiction writers must read science, engineering, technology especially if not actively engaged in doing STEM stuff. But we still have only 24 hours a day. How to make time? How to find cool stuff? Journals help, but skimming several journals a week still doesn’t fill the well. Twitter, used carefully, Read More…
Backing Up a Little
Cold Welcome is not the first book in the Vatta Universe, so the new book has under it the foundation built by Vatta’s War. Yet it needs to be understandable to new readers without their having to buy the first five books. This is not meant to discourage anyone from buying the first five books Read More…
Hardware
Back when I was young (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) writers used very limited hardware. A pencil and some paper. A pen and some paper. Both writing instruments had been somewhere improved since earlier times–there were fountain pens, so you didn’t have to dip and write a few words and then dip again, and the Read More…
Grandmaster Announcement: C.J. Cherryh
If you haven’t read any of C.J. Cherryh’s incredibly intelligent, complex, thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction or fantasy, perhaps you don’t know how deserved this announcement is, and why some of us met it today with “About time!” Cherryh has published somewhere the far side of 60 novels and many, many shorter works (though I Read More…
The List
Every construction project comes with a list of remaining things to do before the owner signs off on it…this one too. Getting the browser tab to show anything is…being difficult. Some interior links are being constructed (separate issue.) And larger on my list than this are the book revisions, so I’m signing off for awhile. Read More…
A Brief Note on the Next Book
Cold Welcome is set in the Vatta Universe, with some of the familiar characters from Vatta’s War and a sizeable cast of new ones. It’s currently in revision, Editor having found many ways to improve it. In the interim between sending it in and getting Editor’s Letter, other things piled up on the desk and Read More…