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Wrap-Up Season 2011: Everything Else

Wrap-Up Season 2011: Books That I Wrote About This Year

Wrap-up Season 2011: Revising The Novel

Sold another story to Clarkesword; submitted my first-ever novel query; finished my eighth year of writing

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

Wrap-up Season 2011

A note to my writer friends. If you die and leave me with your brilliant unfinished manuscripts, I will burn them.

Are comedic novels supposed to be funny in the same way that stand-up comics are funny?

Woman as Financial Vampire

The First Science Fiction Novel

Some crime novels with interesting story structures

The joy of short novels

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

I would like to read a dull plotless novel, because all the plotless novels I’ve read have been too awesome

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

Fun Books I’ve Read Recently

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

Little tired right now

Another story sold to Nature

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

Genji is a rapist

You know how we got taught in elementary school that Native Americans used every part of the Buffalo? Well early 20th century industrial food processors were good at that too.

Sold a story -- "The Black Spirits Which Rage In The Belly Of Rogue Locomotives" -- to Daily Science Fiction

Kind of not as excited about “A Dance With Dragons” as I used to be

George Orwell's Burmese Days

The Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Is A Literary Masterpiece

I don't think reading books is likely to make a person smarter, happier, or more economically productive

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

I am reading Don Quixote

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

Sold a story to Brain Harvest

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

The Best Yahoo Answer Ever

The Cossacks

In the past year I've read more than a hundred books in an electronic format, without really noticing any difference

When cats are involved, you're allowed to do all the crazily immoral bioethical stuff that people write SF novels about

Plato would have made a fine novelist

How To Have 43 Submissions Out

Okay, ummm, where the hell are you people coming from?

My sixth hundred rejection

The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, as Translated by Ted Hughes is quite ball-tightening

This Is Not A Novel

Some revisioning knowledge

Euripides Is The Bomb

Rahul Reads Shakespeare

David Sedaris

In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower

Why it is okay to not be special

"Tropism" is a pretty useful word

How Proust Changed My Life

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