Month: October 2022

I was just finishing up another short – at the rate I’m going, I may have to put out an anthology of short stories entitled something like “You Really Don’t Want Mind Uploading Tech”. Depressing as this was, for some reason I got to thinking of Gatsby again, and the more I think of it,… Continue reading More about The Great Gatsby

One of the criticisms of the early years of the former USSR that I hear every single time is “forced collectivization of farms”. A thought about this came to me last night. First, consider the time – the 1920’s. That was when mechanization of farms was seriously beginning, with things like steam and ICE tractors.… Continue reading A thought about farms

I’ve been writing a lot lately. Did a major revision – this was, in fact, the hardest I’ve ever done, it really was hack and move – on my first contact novel. I’ve mentioned about “real litrachur” being heavily a “slice of life”, and too many people that I, at least, don’t want to know… Continue reading Story writing

I see people talking about how much “Real Litrachur” shows a slice of life. I’m reading The Great Gatsby for the first time, and yesterday, hear Richard Powers, the honoree at the Festival, reading his favorite of the short stories he’s written (actually, it may have been a novelette). IT’S ALL DEPRESSING. I could sum… Continue reading Following on KSR at FSFF

I believe I mentioned on File 770 that I’d seen that Kim Stanley Robinson would be in Rockville (just up the road from us) on the 15th (today as I type this) at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival, and was thinking of going. Mike Glyer emailed me, and asked that if I was going,… Continue reading KSR & FSF

Over on Charlie Stross’ blog, the eternal thread on ICE vs. EVs has surfaced. There are people who argue that we’re not ready, that we need the infrastructure, and a) many of the EV charging stations are frequently out of order; b) people plug in and walk away, and c) some of us can’t charge… Continue reading Cars, electric and otherwise

While I was at Capclave last weekend, I went to the “Ask an Editor” panel, and asked a question – “can you sell a story that starts slowly, you know, like ‘in a hole in the ground lived a hobbit…” (Whe moderator took them all, and went through the list). He answered mine last:  he… Continue reading Starting a story slowly