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Short story update

I sent “Varmints” out to what I thought was a gloriously inappropriate market with a quick turnaround, and yet they have not seen fit to reject me yet. Which goes to show what I know. πŸ˜‰ I’m trying to decide if “Women’s Work” is...

Second and third opinions…

I just emailed “Women’s Work”–the current title of the time dilation story–to a friend for comments. I always have to resist the urge to hit “check mail” every ten seconds when I do that. πŸ™‚ Of course, Brian’s seen it...

More reading…

My mother-in-law had a copy of Neuromancer, so I picked it up and read it while I was hennaing my hair today. The beginning really suffers from all of the people imitating it over the years, but it picks up. Pretty cool. 20 paws and an ethernet cable up. πŸ˜‰ Tonight the...

Wow. 1000+ words!

And they’re good words, according to the S.O. Much, much progress on the time dilation story. All the chunky bits of exposition worked in non-chunkily, and mainly the denoument to go, I think. Heh. He still wants to kill the antagonist. Hopefully she’s...

Things to do instead of writing.

Download and install Microsoft.net framework. Install Slug, a client for Movable Type. Play with Naturally Speaking. Read Meet Me at Infinity. Take bath. Pet cats. Drink too much diet Coke. Put feet up. Maybe I should just take the night...

Fiction I’ve read recently:

Racoona Sheldon, The Screwfly Solution James Tiptree, Jr., The Women Men Don’t See Joanna Russ, When it Changed Tim Pratt, Little Gods Okay, I actually read Joanna Russ’ story in a college science fiction course and reread it recently. I still enjoy it as...

My New Job

The new job is definitely of the good. I go forth, I restore order to the computing universe, and I leave happy people in my wake. Best of all, I’m not trapped at my desk forbidden to go to lunch or dinner or home for 72 hours at a time. I walk around campus....

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