Archive for October, 2007
Hastings Point, Fall
Sunday, October 28th, 2007I woke up this morning to the sounds of shotguns going off like a machine gun. That was kind of weird. Definitely sounded like a couple of guys had semi-auto shotguns (that is, not the sort you need pump between each shot in order to chamber the next round and eject the spent casing) and [...]
Tactical Withdrawal
Thursday, October 25th, 2007We call it a retreat, but it’s really just a brief, tactical move to the rear, departing the field of battle on our own terms in order to regroup, rearm, and reenter the fray refreshed and relaxed. Re re re re re re. Re. Anyway, tomorrow I’m off to Gun Lake as I have been [...]
Saving Short Fiction. Again.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007It’s a tasty nugget, one that keeps coming around: how, oh how do we save short fiction? I’ve said before that I tend to regard the question of short fiction survival, especially magazine survival, as an academic question at best. I don’t write a lot of short fiction, I’m not a member of that club [...]
Sunday Morning Round-Up
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Writing forum acquaintance Diana Rowland has a nice post up about how to network at conventions. The trick, of course, is to not be there to network, exclusively. But I guess that’s something that I learned a long time ago. There are a lot of awesome people to meet at cons who are not writers, [...]
D&D, Again
Thursday, October 18th, 2007The irreplaceable Jonathon McCalmont of SF Diplomat took issue the other day with my enthusiasm for the new Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition (complete with nifty, Web 2.0 interactivity built-in!) Well, okay, he didn’t take issue with my enthusiasm as such, just the concepts that I’m so enthusiastic about. And I get, very much, what [...]
Gaming in the 21st Century
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Back when I was a wee little tyke, I heard much about the evils of Dungeons & Dragons. When I got to high school, I knew some dudes at school who were kind of into it (and very smart and mostly well-adjusted, so I started having my doubts about the evil-ness of it). The bast [...]
Out of Hiatus?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007So, I more or less intentionally took the last three weeks off of blogging. In fact, I’d taken the week off before that because… well, because it can be a stressful thing to be expecting one’s second child. It’s a really curious sort of situation, when you get comfortable with your one kid, and you’ve [...]