Everyone and Everything Has A Story
Another of the “lost” posts that vanished when SU moved a while back. This one was originally published, as will be apparent, in December for Christmas. But maybe the dog days of summer could use a...
View ArticleWriting in my head
A lot of what happens at the keyboard is a mystery. We sit down at the computer, open the document, figure out where we were, and continue on from that point. How does that work, exactly? We don’t...
View ArticleTales From the Front, 2012 edition
Over the last few years, I’ve reported back on my experience as an editor, both as Fiction Editor for Space and Time and for a number of other projects I’ve participated in. As always, I believe...
View ArticleMiddles
“Middles” It was a sign hung over a shop in a picturesque side street of a small Japanese town. Everything else – all the signage, everything pertinent to what it was actually selling – was in...
View ArticleAlone in the Wilderness
Continuing the ancient SU tradition of storytelling for Halloween month, I offer this one, first published in Lore 2, in 1995. And no, it isn’t about writing and/or writers. Happy Halloween… ***...
View ArticleOnce upon a time, but not happily ever after
In genre fiction, many stories don’t end happily ever after. Some stories don’t end at all. A couple of weeks ago, while cleaning up the mess of papers on the pull-out shelf on my desk, I discovered...
View ArticleFive Favourites
it’s probably an old game, but I recently tripped over someone else playing it, here: http://patricksamphire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/five-favourite-books.html So I thought I’d throw mine out there. In...
View ArticleDoes it matter how old you are?
Once upon a time… (Well, I’m about to write about the topic of Literature for Children, so why not use the time-honored beginning for every fairy tale alive…?) Once upon a time, then, there were just...
View ArticleThe Book Collector, or “Does this edition make my bookshelf look funny?”
I think that anyone who has the book bug has been to this one single strange place at some time or another during their book collecting days: the aesthetics of it all. There is something innate, a...
View ArticleSoap gets in your eyes
Many years ago, when I was a full-time software developer, I was also an avid bicyclist. My programming partner and I would work until mid-afternoon, take a break, go for a 15-mile bike ride, go back...
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