Sitemap - 2011 - Woman of Letters
Wrap-Up Season 2011: Everything Else
Wrap-Up Season 2011: Books That I Wrote About This Year
Wrap-up Season 2011: Revising The Novel
Wrap-Up Season 2011: Predictably Good Books, Part Two
Wrap-Up Season: Predictably Good Books, Part One
Wrap-Up Season 2011: Surprisingly Good Books, part two
Wrap Up Season 2011: Surprisingly Good Books, Part One
Wrap-Up Season 2011: In Search Of Lost Time
Sold my story--"We Planted The Sad Child, And Watched"--to Daily Science Fiction
Are comedic novels supposed to be funny in the same way that stand-up comics are funny?
The First Science Fiction Novel
Some crime novels with interesting story structures
My seven hundredth short story rejection
Wherein I learn something about noir literature
The main thing I've learned from Banned Books Week is that book banning is a pretty minor problem
Do you folks enjoy reading poetry?
Anatomy of a Literary Pageturner
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
The gift that I recently received from my horrible writerly anxiety
We should all stop being so self-deprecating
My story "Probe" published in Polluto #9
Does anyone actually enjoy cliffhangers? (This is also a review of A Dance With Dragons)
The poverty and evanescence of literary acclaim in SF
Finalist in 3rd quarter 2011 Writers of the Future Contest
Today I Wrote My One Millionth Word Of Crap
Home Depot is a very different kind of store from the other big boxes
I've written more words this year, to date, than I wrote in all of last year
My story is in the August 4th issue of Nature
One of the few times I've read about Africa without being made to feel sorry for anyone
Kind of not as excited about “A Dance With Dragons” as I used to be
The Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Is A Literary Masterpiece
Great stuff that can happen to your mind while writing a novel
Terrible things that happen to your mind and body while writing a novel in eight days
How I went about writing the damned thing
How To Quadruple Your Writing Speed For A One Time Payment Of $9.99
How I went about abandoning my last novel
I just wrote a 71,000 word novel in 8 days. And you know what? It's pretty good.
What Adrian Tomine's "Optic Nerve" is teaching me about the art of the non-ending
Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" is probably one of the best graphic novels I have ever read
I really have to read more Karen Joy Fowler
My story "Seven Deadly Robots" is up at Brain Harvest
Just finished reading my own novel for the first time
Short Reactions To Books That Probably Deserve Long Reactions, Vol. II
I think I might be addicted to addiction memoirs
Gray's Anatomy has the most attractive cast I've ever seen in a television
Science-Fictional Moments In Modernist Literature
Quick Reactions To Books That Probably Deserve Long Reactions
Sold a story to Nature: my third SFWA-qualifying sale
Reading me some Horatio Hornblower
I think Wikipedia's market-cap would be larger than Facebook's if it was a for-profit corporation
Plato would have made a fine novelist
How To Have 43 Submissions Out
Okay, ummm, where the hell are you people coming from?
The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, as Translated by Ted Hughes is quite ball-tightening
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower
Why it is okay to not be special
"Tropism" is a pretty useful word
Why I am loath to give writing advice
It's almost embarassing how strongly I am affected by polemics
Our solidarity with Egypt is utterly meaningless
Political Fictions, i.e. I am reading The Grapes of Wrath and it is really, really good.
Why I am deeply suspicious of Malcolm Gladwell
A Few Questions Arising From A Three Thousand Mile Drive
Taking a little vacation. Though not from blogging, clearly.
Wrapping Up Wrap-up Season: I'm Moving To California...also, I read alot of books