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Ficlets was important to a lot of people. There are over ten thousand writers, thirty-five thousand stories, and eighty thousand comments. It was also important to me. On my author page, I wrote: I am a professional narrative non-fiction writer. I’ve published three books, and write several geeky columns on topics like technology and gaming. What I really want to do, though, is write fiction, and I figured Ficlets was the perfect place to find my fiction voice. The 1024 character limitation, the ability to draw inspiration from quotes and pictures, and the collaborative nature of the prequels and sequels all worked together to help me create some super short stories that I'm...
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This week's LA Daily is all about an awesome cookbook Anne and I discovered entirely by accident, and how it's made cooking fun again
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"I see what you did there," Andrew said. "You should be a writer." "I'm working on that," I said.
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It's the second act, which is where the stakes are typically raised for our heroes, there's a death or betrayal, and we're not quite sure how the good guys are going to prevail …
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This, dear friends, is why I release everything I do to the Creative Commons. Because you never know when someone's going to take something you made and do something cool with it.
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2008 was supposed to be the year that I wrote a whole bunch of fiction. I got a lot of things started, finished an important project, but I didn't finish the two projects that were most important to me. I'm going to blame my failure on losing three months to sinus surgery recovery, and a busier-than-anticipated summer convention schedule. Now, I will look forward to 2009 as the year I'll write a whole bunch of fiction, and publish it, even. As I looked through my archives for 2008, I remembered a year that totally didn't suck. Here are some of the highlights, continued from Part One …
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I went on an awesome date with my wife , and then I went to an awesome convention in Phoenix : The day was a blur of friendly faces, signing autographs and books, shaking hands, posing for pictures, mutual geeking at scientists (there were lots of scientists there, mostly astronomers, who listened patiently to me while I slimed them with my slobbering geekiness) and my constant excitement and wonder that so many people knew about my books and wanted to pick them up. ... In fact, while we were driving there (Anne was driving, I was reading from my book because I got it into my head that it may be a good idea to try something new about 20...
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I decided that I would take the week between Christmas and New Year off, but the damn Internets keep pulling me back in! So, here are some various items for today … I wasn't going to write an LA Daily this week, because the Internets seem to be turned off, but my editor told me that traffic is actually up at the Weekly, so I went ahead and wrote a story about playing Scrabble with Anne … Mike (aka Gabe) says that playing DD with me and Kurtz and Tycho inspired him to get a DMG and learn how to run a game …I'm in the Jor-El region. Normally I don't care about this sort of thing, and never take...
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We celebrate a non-religious, minimally-commercial version of Xmas here in Wheatonland, and the 2008 installment is awesome. Whatever you choose to celebrate this time of year, I hope it's filled with all the stuff you like, none of the stuff you don't like, and that you're surrounded by people you love, because that's how I'm doing it, and it rules. Merry and Happy, everyone!
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Today is my friend Andrew's birthday … I treasure Andrew's friendship, and I wouldn't be half the writer I am without his Red Pen of Doom … I'd love it if everyone who reads my blog took a moment to join me in wishing him a happy birthday.
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