Monthly Archives: October 2006

Sporadic Posting for the Next Week

10/31/2006 – 11:38 am

I leave for the Whirled Fantasy Convention in Austin on Thursday and probably won’t have much time between then and now to blog much. Dry your eyes.
If you’re going to World Fantasy and you’re reading this, be sure to say hi. The programming at conventions is usually decent, but I mostly go to [...]

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Wiped Out

10/30/2006 – 12:23 am

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Whew. Here’s the deal: school keeps me busy as it is. To really stay on top of everything it takes a lot of time. Add to this my commute, domestic responsibilities, and my non-school Spanish program, I’m a busy beaver.
In order to have “free” time, I need to pretty much [...]

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Four Things Before I Get to Work

10/27/2006 – 1:18 pm

World Fantasy Convention is next week! That crept up on me. I’m really looking forward to it as it’s a chance to see old friends and meet some new people. I need to introduce myself to Shawna McCarthy and the team over at Wildside Press and thank them for buying my stories. [...]

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Grapes and an Unhealthy Obsession

10/26/2006 – 10:17 am

I finished Grapes of Wrath last night and boy, she was good. The ending didn’t entirely satisfy me as I didn’t like how Tom Joad just slips away, but the last scene with Rose of Sharon was quite powerful. A remarkable book.
Way to go Steinbeck.
I also started a book called Suite Francaise for [...]

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More On School

10/24/2006 – 8:51 pm

I found a draft of the spring timetable and good news abounds. One: there’s a graduate class taught by one of my current professors entitled “Magic and Wonder.” We’ve talked a little bit about the reading list for an upcoming class of his because he knows this is my interest area, but I [...]

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Thinking About Story

10/24/2006 – 12:43 pm

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I’m by no means an expert in story writing, but I have noticed an interesting distinction between writers in my graduate program and the up-and-coming writers I trade critiques with. Of course, what follows are broad, sweeping statements, so if you fall into either category, dont’ think I’m talking about you. [...]

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Too Many Things Today

10/22/2006 – 10:57 am

Footie
Tottenham vs. West Ham @ noon
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid @ 2:00
Chicago vs. New England @ noon
Packers vs. Dolphins @ noon

Wisconsin Book Festival
Genre Fiction and the New Wave Fabulists @ 4:00
Dan Chaon, Benjamin Percy, & Dean Bakopoulos: An Evening of New Short Stories @ 6:00
The worst part is I’m a little under the weather and not [...]

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Many Balls in the Air

10/20/2006 – 3:04 pm

Yeah, so I need to get some things squared away in this arena. I’ve only got four stories currently pending (which is kind of low for me.) I’ve decided that “Five African Beers” needs a complete rewrite based on the rejection from Gordon at F&SF, who said he thought the story was told [...]

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Irritated

10/19/2006 – 6:23 pm

Well, it finally happened: I missed the last bus.
This is greatly irritating. The last bus out of campus for the remote park-n-ride lot is 5:30 and the busses don’t run quite on time. They come a little early, they come a little late, yada yada yada, I missed the last bus even though [...]

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Things I Did Not Know Dept.

10/17/2006 – 8:31 pm

Shame on everyone who knew the Supersuckers’ “Must’ve Been High” was something I ought to have been listening to for the last eleven years. I even had it hiding in my music collection and didn’t know about it. Shame!
I wish I would have known Beck’s “The Information” came out two weeks ago. [...]

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