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Fifteen books in fifteen minutes

16 July 2009

This is currently a Facebook meme, but I felt like doing it here instead. Because I can. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you, for whatever reasons. This isn’t your top 15 canon or even books you’d necessarily recommend, just books that have made [...]

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Titles Matter

21 October 2008

When you create a title for something you wrote, how careful are you to choose the right words? Here’s one example of a not-so-effective title: Tests confirm chocolates contaminated – CAA And here’s the very brief news article the title is for: The Consumer Affairs Authority(CAA) told the Colombo Magistrate Court today that test results [...]

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Useful Websites For Speculative Fiction Writers!

19 October 2008

Today, I’ve got a couple useful websites for you. The first… SF Editors Wiki – it’s a wiki for keeping track of the works that science fiction editors have worked on. It includes editors with Ace Books, DAW Books, Baen Books, and Tor Books, just to name a few. The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam. How cliched [...]

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NaNoWriMo 2008

17 October 2008

NaNoWriMo 2008 is quickly approaching. Only… Uh, 14 more days! Two weeks! For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is a contest of sorts geared towards getting you, average Joe Blow, to write 50,000 words towards your very own novel. Whether you’ve ever written a novel before or not. Whether you’ve [...]

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Severely Overpriced Computer Cables

12 October 2008

My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he talks about programming, Access, and such like that, but he also has some other interesting posts. Like this one about overpriced computer cables. Who, in their right mind, would pay $499 US for a 1.5 meter cable? It’s [...]

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Speculative Fiction Comics

25 September 2008

I’m not much of a comics person – with the exception of Asterix & Obelix, thanks to my oldest brother, Tony – but I’ve recently been introduced to a few comics that are right up my alley. Speculative fiction comics. Can you say, "Cool!"? We have Freefall, which starts with a wrecked spaceship, duct tape, [...]

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Mobile Phone = eBook Reader

23 September 2008

We’ve been contemplating getting me an ebook reader for a few months. I have joint problems, and honestly, it isn’t a whole lot of fun dislocating a thumb from holding a hardcover book. Okay, so in all fairness, I dislocate my wrist when I slice bread, so this isn’t all that unusual… Then the husband [...]

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Sentinel and Short Stories

21 September 2008

Fahim had a dream that led to a story that we started developing. You know, this is a fairly standard thing with us. I have ideas, I bounce them off him. He has ideas, he bounces them off me, then gives them to me. So, really, it should come as no surprise that he gave [...]

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Is It You?

31 August 2008

Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is especially useful for those of us who live in areas where the Internet is less than, well, reliable. Similar Posts: How does ones internet “run out”? NaNoWriMo The Continuing Saga . . . Working on the Design of [...]

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Humorous Science Fiction

27 August 2008

It’s time again for the AW blog chain, and this time, Sassee Bioche’s post before mine talks about humour. Go on, go read her post. You know you want to! Naturally, that led me to think about the humorous science fiction I’ve read. Well, really, it leads me to think of humorous fiction authors in [...]

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