Dear Muse….
Dear Muse:
Yes, I understand that the change we made to chapter 2 of A Pleasing Shape complety changes the tenor of the story and that heavy lifting is required. On the other hand, that is no reason to make the current ending so boring. Even if it’s not the ending we’re going to [...]
First draft progress: A Pleasing Shape
I passed the 20,000 word mark this morning, meaning that I’ve managed to write about a half-Lake on the weekdays (less on weekends) (A “Lake” is 2500 words per day. Jay Lake, whose work I admire greatly, manages that when he’s in novel writing mode.). I’m noodling (20,000 words is “noodling?”) around with a silly [...]
Really odd question…
Can anyone think of the last time they read a really good car chase scene?
I have been remiss… New Stories!
I have been remiss in keeping those of you who don’t use the new stories feed up-to-date on the latest and greatest offerings from the Pendorwright website.
Appliance Dreams is a short story about a few Pendorians living in and busily restoring a derelict starship. They’ve awakened the AI, but they have no idea where [...]
So, Muse walks onto the trading floor and has an analogy…
I had this idea: A traditional Dyson sphere, what most of us singularity-as-a-setting writers now call matrioshka spheres (poor Dyson, to be remembered for the bad SFnal version), where lots and lots of little solar-powered polises live in huge cloud-like orbits around the sun. Gazillions of human analogues live in these things and 99.99% [...]
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