Fly this post to Cuba! A rant takes o...
This post started out on topic. I have a sheet of paper tacked to my wall. Over a year ago I printed a phrase on it, and then I stuck it to the wall.That wa...
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Links: fluffers, hobbits, and cowboys
Another week, another round up. We have the usual helpful craft links this week, as well as some inevitable sex, some famous British writers courting contro...
Links: Fire in Cairo
This week’s been like living through the 1980s all over again, except that this time around we don’t have Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev, or Lech Wałęsa, or CND, ...
Links: libraries, underpants, and ali...
The links went AWOL last week for various good reasons, but the urge to surf can’t be repressed for long, so we’re back. Sorry if you missed us. Some politi...
Story sprawling? Try making it a cart...
The Story From Hell (TSFH) still bothers me. Though I’m on the road now, and I get very little done in hotel rooms for some reason. It’s not as if I do...
Links: About characters, mostly
As you’ll be aware, it’s been a bad week for Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka, with heavy floods displacing millions and causing the deaths of many. Two of th...
How butchering your short story might...
My life has been captured by the story from hell. So wearying has this literary labor become, I had to pause to write another story late last year rat...
Skeletal links, late and tweety
Steph was hit by flu-like symptoms this weekend, so we had to skip our usual roundup. Sorry and all that, and get well soon Steph! The round up should be ba...