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 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 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 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 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 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, Read more…
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 Read more…