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: if you google ‘Zerg Swarm” you get an adorable Google Read more
So I decided to enter the IF Comp (The Interactive Fiction Competition) again this year, having tried it last year and come in next-to-last place – I got outvoted by unfinished games! This time I started late, more or less on whim, with only days to submit an idea before Read more
I had the day off yesterday and since I saw Captain America: Winter Soldier recently, I decided to spend the day looking for Nick Fury’s grave. See, the movie was filmed in Cleveland, and I knew that some scenes were shot not far from Lakeview Cemetery so it made sense Read more
So, I had an informal poll on my facebook page: What would my Curious Fictions subscribers like for their exclusive subscriber-only content? I offered to post unpublished flash fiction, works in progress, or a serialized novel. Serialized Novel won out BIG TIME. This leaves me, however, with the question of Read more
On Saturday, November 10, I attended a sweet workshop at Case Western Reserve University’s Writing Center. The presenter was Linda Robertson, and the topic was “Speculative Fiction: From Concept to Pitch.” Attendees were asked to submit a brief (one page) story concept, and in addition to taking us through the 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
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