http://pendorwright.com Quality science fiction and fantasy erotica since 1989 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:30:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/24/dear-muse/ 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 ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/16/first-draft-progress-a-pleasing-shape/ I read Saturn's Children by Charlie Stross last week, and after having thought about it some, I've come to the conclusion that the book is shallower than I wanted it to be. The book follows the adventures of Freya Nakamichi, a sex 'droid designed to please her human masters. Unfortunately for ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/14/review-saturns-children-by-charlie-stross/ Can anyone think of the last time they read a really good car chase scene? http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/14/really-odd-question/ 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 ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/13/i-have-been-remiss-new-stories/ 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 ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/13/so-muse-walks-onto-the-trading-floor-and-has-an-analogy/ There are lots of novels where the setting is the ordinary humans picking up the pieces after a sudden Singularity event (sometimes called a "Transcendence Event" or "Hard Take-Off"). One of the premises of these novels is that some super-intelligence in the world is figuring something out, something that (to it) ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/12/the-current-economic-crisis-as-failed-singularity-event/ I finally decided to get off my ass and start writing again.  I'm not happy when I'm not writing, but often I lack the kind of input that I need to push me toward writing.  Television and movies doesn't do it: only reading really inspires me to write a lot.  ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/10/not-a-great-week-but-not-a-bad-week/ The Pendorwright site appear to be the subject of a rather annoying denial of service attack.  I'm not sure what's going on, but I'm working on tracking it down and blocking out the problem addresses even further.  There may be some performance problems with the changes, but let's hope they're ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/07/my-apologies/ I was working on a story and trying to explain why the characters were reacting to each other the way they were and hit upon an interesting obvservation. Nathan has just been approached at the city's "het" S&M club in a way that was somewhat surprising, and attempts to ... http://pendorwright.com/2008/10/01/explaining-the-seattle-chill/