Why do we need plot anyway, the stupid thing!? Why does it think it’s so important, instead of, say, character or really delicious scene description? These are the question newbie-me asked many times, when I was so good at dialog and character and scenes but I just hadn’t figured out Read more
Last week, I attended my first Game Developers Convention (GDC). It was also, with the exception of IndieCade, my first game developers’ convention of any kind. GDC is… it’s big. Worldcon? Tiny in comparison. Like 6,000 people go to Worldcon. 28,000 people attended GDC last year. That’s about the population Read more
When I was young, my mother told me a lie. It was a big lie and she told it with remarkable consistency. She told me she was Jewish. “And since all that matters for Jews is what your mother is, that means you are Jewish, too,” she’d say. There was Read more
I once again feel like making a bunch of random future predictions. Like in this previous post. With terrible illustrations by me, drawn in GIMP on a laptop trackpad because my new mac doesn’t have a USB port. (There’s some future shock for ya. IT HAS NO INPUT PORTS.) When Read more
So this one time, I took the RTA out to a friend’s house in Euclid Heights. This was before cell phones and I found myself at my friend’s house, the lights off, the door locked. I and my boyfriend waited and waited. We decided to give up and wait for Read more
My whelm feels somewhat over, so I thought, rather than force myself to make a new blog post on some topic, I’ll list what I’m up to now. Tonight I’m reading at Appletree Books for National Poetry Month. It’s very kind of them to invite all the poets who participated Read more
The early female writers of science fiction are at last garnering the attention they deserve, which begs the question: if women have been writing genre fiction since its birth, why is it so often thought of as a male dominated, or even exclusively male, genre? What happened? Great essays Read more