As a side-effect of my Women Writing as Women project, I’ve been reading a lot of old science fiction. There’s an editorial in the September, 1960 Galaxy Science Fiction where editor H. L. Gold asks readers to stop writing the same old bad things… that you can’t ‘drop’ bombs from Read more…
I was plotting out my novel “Vampires Vs. Maturity” in preparation for NanoWriMo, and I thought about character-oriented plotting, a model for which I had learned back in Clarion. (Follow the link for more detail, but the basic premise is, you draw an arrow between every character in the story, Read more…
I had a dream that I had a pet pig. Her name was Priscilla and she was a little more cartoon-shaped than real pigs, with a round fat head and diminutive snout. She was pink with stiff white hairs on her. She felt wonderful to nuzzle. So warm. So affectionate. Read more…
With white writers writing more diverse characters, could we face a situation where the white writer with a diverse cast is seen as more diverse / given preference over a minority writer who choses to write a white cast? This question has been bothering me since a friend posted it. Read more…
I will once again be participating in the Clarion Write-a-Thon to raise scholarships for the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. Usually I set my goal as writing 50 short stories in the six-week write-a-thon window. This year I posted a twitter poll asking if I should do that or instead try to Read more…
You, my loyal fans, in my write-a-thon poll chose for me to write an urban fantasy in first person point of view with bromance/sismance in it somewhere. (I confess some panic at Urban Fantasy winning. Hard SF had an early lead and I’d started researching topics!) So, for the Clarion Read more…
So I’ve been working on this huge and possibly insane data project, where I am trying to count all the women writing as women (psuedonym ignoring) over time in speculative fiction magazines. I started with Astounding / Analog, because I love them, and they’ve shown their excellent taste in buying Read more…