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Category Archives: Writing

Comments about writing, as a profession as well as a hobby.

The Big News

18-Nov-09

I have accepted a job offer.
Full-time, staff (as a technical writer), working for a prepaid debit card company in Las Vegas, Nevada. The money is good, the location is great, and the company is small and I have a chance to really influence a documentation department as it develops.
John and I will therefore be staying [...]

The zombies have bitten me again

24-Jul-09

Remember the NaNoWriMo novel I was working on…. um…. last year, I think it was? With the couple who elope to Las Vegas just as zombies rise up, and it’s a mash of “Honeymoon in Vegas” and “Night of the Living Dead?” Like all of my novels, I knew I could write it when the [...]

How I tell a story

01-Apr-09

I tell this story quite a lot, but it applies to everything I write, whether it’s erotica or science fiction or comic books.
All of my stories revolve around one essential set of questions:
Who has a secret, what is it, and what will they do to protect it?
Everything in the story is about that. What’s the [...]

G1 Phone User Guide

24-Mar-09

Someday I will write
Online help system in haiku.
No one will read it.
John and I got G1 phones (the Google phone). They’re pretty cool, and hidden in the user manual, in the “Caring for your Phone” section, are little bits of poetic language, just waiting there as gems for the people who actually DO RTFM. Like [...]

The Sprawl

12-Mar-09

“The Sprawl” was rejected by Fiction magazine. I got the notice a week ago.
Onward!