My current WiP, Everything that Never Happened, is set mainly aboard a small 17th-century sailing vessel, a square-rigged ketch named the Mandalay. It's not a coincidence that it's a square-rigged ketch, just like the historical Nonsuch; ever since the first time I visited the Nonsuch gallery in the Manitoba Museum, I've been fascinated by [...]
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Tesseracts 14
So yeah. Tesseracts is an annual Canadian anthology of SF and fantasy.
This year, my short story "Heat Death, or, Answering the Ourobouros Question" will be in it.
To say I'm excited is to somewhat understate the case.
Edit—comments from the editors: "[One editor] wrote down 'funny, lively, likeable.' [The other] was even more enthusiastic!"
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The jetpack theory
42. Jetpack
Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream.
Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.
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Tonight's fiction
A romance between a worm and a giraffe — seriously
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Writing group meeting
So tonight I went to the second Group Voice meeting. Group Voice is a local writers' group, newly-formed. Last meeting, two weeks ago, we pretty much just introduced ourselves.
This time we all brought something to read to the group — I brought the first couple sections of my current WiP, Once [...]
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Indispensable for writers…
…the latest Dresden Codak webcomic wossname deals up a list of the Essential 3rd Act Twists.
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Tom Gauld, my new favourite cartoonist
42. Jetpack
Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream.
…hits the nail right on the head with this one.
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The movie deal (now with picture!)
EXTRY! EXTRY! Local writer sells story to King film-maker! Read all about it!
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Some of what I wrote tonight
More writing in Once I Was You, involving an old French song and a pastoral vacation. This bit is set on a world called Cloedine, where our POV character is taking a break from her work as an envoy. She keeps hearing snippets of some ancient song:
À la claire fontaine
M'en allant promener
I sat [...]
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Millions just fell from the sky
The now-defunct site ficlets.com had a feature called "Inspiration", which would offer you an opening line, an ending line, and a smattering of CC-licensed pictures from Flickr to try and give you something to write about. One time the ending line I got was "…millions just fell from the sky", and here's what resulted:
Take [...]
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