Sitemap - 2012 - Woman of Letters
Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
Retrospective on my First Semester in an MFA Program
Traffic to my blog has increased by 250%
Another year of writing statistics
My slush-reading stint has ended
Index of books that I blogged about (or just enjoyed) in 2012
The Week of Capsule Book Reviews Continues With Another Day of Predictably Good Books
Predictably Good Books (that I read in 2012), Part One
Surprisingly Good Books, Part Two
Books I Read In 2012 That Were Surprisingly Good, Part One
Strange Horizons has just published my first book review
Inaugurating Wrap-Up Season 2012 (oh, also, I watched the Blind Side!)
I do not use shame and anxiety to motivate myself
The Small House at Allington (by Anthony Trollope) and Election (by Tom Perrotta)
Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids (by Alexandra Robbins)
Notes on "Association of the Dead"
Some Awards Season Mentions for "What Everyone Remembers"
Changing Places and Small World, by David Lodge
Taking This Blog To The Next Level
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
On teaching "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Just received my nine hundredth short story rejection
Waiting for the hurricane; Wired magazine; David Lodge; and more submissions stuff
Submitting to literary journals
The difference between good writing and great writing.
John Williams' _Stoner_ is the best novel that I've read this year
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
Sold a story--"Inside the Mind of the Bear"--to the Intergalactic Medicine Show
Why you should donate money to Strange Horizons
Is there value to being locked out of the canon? (part two)
Professor Kanakia's Guide to Submitting Your Fiction (and some other stuff too)
Is there a value to being locked out of the literary canon?
Getting up at 7 AM every day is kind of awesome
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Problems In My Life That Have Recently Been Fixed By Scotch Tape
I have a strong desire to achieve another triumph
Two Journal-Based YA novels: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Sloppy Firsts
My upcoming appearances at the Baltimore Book Festival (Sept 28-30)
Being willing to learn whatever the instructor is able to teach
The Nap Option! (plus, a lexicography of napping)
Three Books, Six Paragraphs: Drop City, Framley Parsonage, and The American
An illustration of my super sophisticated time management techniques
Notes from the First Week of an MFA Program
Upon beginning the revision of my new novel, I realized it was kind of...poorly written
My story "No Victims" is live in the first issue of Lamplight magazine.
What do you do when the writing isn't easy?
Jo Walton's, _Half a Crown_ is good fun, but it's not quite the fascist dystopia I'm looking for
I love Wired for exactly the same reason that I hate the New York Times
"We Planted The Sad Child, And Watched" is live at Daily Science Fiction
My very first horror sale! Sold a story--"No Victims"--to Lamplight
Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
Reasons for reading five or more of an author's books (with statistics! and lists!)
An infographic of my writing career thus far
Sold stories to Futuredaze and Nameless
Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene
Status Anxiety and the Semi-Successful Writer
Sold a story--"Next Door"--to the Diverse Energies anthology of YA SF
The time has finally come for me to read Revolutionary Road
And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
I write about "My Stephen King Problem"
I've gone one full year without missing a day of writing
My vague and overly-general goodbyes (which also include a long overdue thank-you to Brian)
I've just freed myself from the tyranny of duotrope
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Life is too short to waste time on boring books
The Beardmancipation Proclamation
Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West
I think that Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October might be the most uncool English-language novel
A little bit more about that novel that I just finished writing (oh yeah, it's called _Boom_)
The Collected Poems, 1909-1962, by T.S. Eliot
The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste, by Carl Wilson
Scattered thoughts on the second season of Game of Thrones
"Against Interpretation" and other essays, by Susan Sontag
Three pretty good stories that were published in April 2012
God's Harvard, by Hannah Rosin
The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
The Feminine Mystique and dillettantism
The Feminist Mystique, by Betty Friedan
Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.
Distrust That Particular Flavor, by William Gibson
My story "Tomorrow's Dictator" has just been published by Apex Magazine
Hey everyone, don't expect anything out of me for the next fifteen days. I am writing a novel.
Why I'm going to stop giving out writing advice
Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford
What does it mean to be against the canon?
My eight hundredth short story rejection
Three pretty good short stories that were published in March 2012
I read another one of Anthony Trollope's bricks, and I enjoyed it quite a lot
Which Schools Should You Apply To?
Why You Should (And Shouldn't) Apply To MFA Programs
Sold "An Early Adoption" to Redstone Science Fiction
Sold "The Snake King Sells Out" to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
In which I write about the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy
Confessions of a Pick-Up Artist Chaser, by Clarisse Thorn
Coming to grips with the worst-case scenario for my writing career
Coping with my own desire to always be in the midst of writing a totally awesome story
A hint of writing difficulties that used to be really common for me
The First and Last Novels That Made Me Cry
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Thought engendered by my return to computer gaming after an absence of two and a half years
The best book I read in February was Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Second Shift
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
Made it to the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Midnight in Paris was fun but trite
As of today, I'm reading slush for Strange Horizons
Four pretty good short stories that were published last month
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
There should be a National Coming-Out Day for people whose favorite novel is _Atlas Shrugged_
"What Everyone Remembers" in Clarkesworld's mid-month podcast