Or: Why Can’t I Just Marathon Everything? About my senior year of college I realized something about the way I handled projects, school work, sewing, well… everything. I procrastinated until the night before [thing] was due and then pushed through Read more
“Speaks backward, Yoda does!” was a quip I first heard from a friend my freshman year of college. I can still picture her delighted face and the pleased general agreement and quote-storm her comment brought. Since then, the joke would Read more
I started writing short science fiction with an eye for publication in the 1980s. I was sixteen and stupid to think I was ready, but that fact remains: I was an intensely serious writer of science fiction before 1990, as Read more
The Zerg were a race in a videogame whose main strength was cheap units (Zerglings) and their main strategy was to keep churning them out until you buried your enemies in Zerg. I kinda loved playing as the Zerg. NB: Read more
No, I don’t normally do movie reviews here. (I keep that on my Female Chauvinist Movie Reviews series on Livejournal.) However, this movie is consuming my brain and I feel like it is a very important case study in story Read more
Some of my most successful stories have been the easiest to write. “Butterflies on Barbed Wire” was practically a single draft and sold to like the third market I sent it to. Why? Well, it plays to my strengths – Read more
A friend of mine was reminiscing about travel. “We didn’t travel much as a family, growing up,” he said. “We went once to California, once to Washington, once to Florida…” DUDE, I thought, you travelled a LOT. That’s three once-in-a-lifetime Read more