Monthly Archives: March 2005

Grettir’s Saga

3/30/2005 – 10:13 am

I finished Grettir’s Saga last night. It never fails to amaze me how sagas don’t end with the death of the main character. There’s always at least a half-dozen more chapters going into some detail about the friends and relations left behind. Grettir’s Saga ends with the story of Thorstein Dromund, Grettir’s [...]

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US v Mexico, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Deadwood and Grettir’s Saga

3/28/2005 – 10:20 pm

Quite an assortment, huh? This is what’s been keeping me occupied for the past few days. Oh, and the Badgers making it to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tourney deserves mention, although in fairness I must admit I can’t watch an entire college basketball game to save my life.
Anyway, I was sorely [...]

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Lighten Up, Francis

3/23/2005 – 5:30 pm

Been home from Clarion for about eight months now and I think I’m beginning to settle down again. Writing is coming much easier now and I think it’s in large part due to how much short fiction I’ve been reading.
I was writing with editing in the front of my mind. Make all verbs [...]

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The Hits Keep Coming

3/22/2005 – 1:51 pm

Wow.
The hits just keep on coming from my Clarion class. Rebecca Rowe, another Clarionite from this past summer, just found out her novel is being published by Edge Sci-Fi/Fantasy and will be coming out next spring or fall. Go Rebecca!
Here’s the tally from Clarion 2004:
Amelia Beamer: Honorable Mention, Issac Asimov Award for Undergraduate [...]

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This Week’s Big News

3/16/2005 – 1:54 pm

I got some big news this week. A story I wrote at Clarion entitled “A Change of Seasons” was accepted at Cicada, a literary magazine for teens. This is a big magazine with national distribution and, best of all, they pay $0.25/word, about five times as much as most genre magazines.
This is also [...]

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I’m a Survivor

3/14/2005 – 3:12 pm

Good news. Even though I don’t have oodles of experience in this realm, I would survive a zombie invasion. Most impressively, I think I really stood out in my demographic.

Official SurvivorCongratulations! You scored 75%!

Whether through ferocity or quickness, you made it out. You made the right choice most of the time, but [...]

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Two More Books Down

3/9/2005 – 5:37 pm

I plowed through another couple books in the last month or so. I finished “Pavane” by Keith Roberts. It really picked up steam in the last third and, in retrospect, it was quite good. The first three sections didn’t seem to have a whole lot connecting them but, in the end, it [...]

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End of an Era

3/6/2005 – 8:26 pm

There’s been a long gap in my blog primarily because I didn’t quite know what to write. My grandmother on my father’s side passed away a few weeks back in February. She was 93.
My brothers and I met my parents in Lincoln, NE, where my dad grew up and where my grandmother lived [...]

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