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Reading (& writing) spacy
Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged NaNoWriMo 2012, research for writing, writing
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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead
In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold (story), Hallowe'en, NaNoWriMo 2012, NaNoWriMoe'en, Power Lemonade (tm), Pushaway (story), skankthrax, writing
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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…
I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa.
Posted in Cold, Journal, LGBTQA, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Anchorage Write Club, Bent Alaska, Scrivener, writing
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Integrity, violation, healing
This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Mistress of Woodland, No Way Way
Tagged integrity, Rachel Meikäläinen, Whole Numbers
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A review of my story “Cold” brings up the question: What is LGBTQ literature?
A great review of the Crossed Genres Year One anthology. But for some reason the reviewer can’t figure out why my story ‘Cold’ with its two lesbian characters is labeled as LGBTQ fiction. Hello?
Posted in Cold
Tagged Crossed Genres, writing
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Storyminded
Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I’m about to start working on.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark
Tagged Asura (Long Dark), Crossed Genres, science fiction, Science in My Fiction (blog), writing
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Writing life
A writer’s progress report: reading up for the design of Consensus in Cold & Long Dark; work on “Trading Shirts”; revision of “Itch” from Finer.
Posted in About writing, Cold, Finer, Mistress of Woodland
Tagged Bai (Cold), Boleyn Maheshwari, Cold notes, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Esti Gusev (Long Dark), Long Dark notes, Mistress of Woodland notes, research for writing, sociocracy, writing
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Building Consensus
How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.
Posted in About writing, Cold
Tagged Battle of Washita River, civility, Cold notes, collaborative decisionmaking, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Dena'ina, good government bad government, Harming none do as you will, integrity, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Turnbull, Mars, Mars Trilogy, NaNoWriMo 2007, Pavonis Mons, Peter Kalifornsky, science fiction, selfhood, sociocracy, storymind, terraforming, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world
One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Polis
Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations, corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, science fiction, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing
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Crossed Genres anthology released — complete w/ my story "Cold"
My story “Cold,” from my novel-in-progress of the same title, is appearing again — this time in Crossed Genres‘ Year One anthology, which collects stories from each of the magazine’s first twelve issues.
Posted in Cold
Tagged Crossed Genres, lgbtq, Melz published work, science fiction, writing
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