anacronyms

And I need a new category, for God’s sake…
This comes via Zaz. It’s that rare thing, an actual fun meme, particularly for people like me who love making shit up.
If you’re a first time poster here, your comment will fall into moderation. Don’t worry, I’m pretty quick to approve them, and the only way you’ll [...]

I’m feeling under intense pressure to define my categories now. This is absurd, of course: a good system (which WordPress is) allows you to add such things at any time.
I think it’s the systems analyst in me. I want to have the business problem defined before committing anything to magnetic patterns, and of course [...]

I just got my first rejection letter, on a short story I submitted to a magazine. It’s an email, so I’ll have to print it out for my rejection file. It wasn’t a form rejection, which is good. The editor indicated that there were some inventive bits. This might be damning the thing with [...]

I finished a first draft of a science fiction story this morning (2400 words), and as usual, I’m having trouble with the title. I picked ‘Peace in Our Time’, but that’s lame, even as a working title.
It’s a story about a spacecraft with a single pilot on a terraforming mission. She discovers something, and must [...]

It’s early, and I’d better head out soon. We’ve got that relative rarity and all-round comic masterpiece, Snow on the Lower Mainland.
Vancouver doesn’t get much snow. People here don’t install snow tires (I don’t, and I grew up in snow country), but that isn’t the biggest problem, which is simply that people here don’t know [...]

Lynn Viehl offers a list of ten links for fiction editing.
Paperback Writer: Edit 11 9 10
I’m not too sure about Elizabeth Lyon’s list, but I’ll examine it in a more depth later.

We were out for dinner tonight, the sxKitten, HouseApe 3.0, and I.
We visited the home of one of my Eastern European cow-orkers, where his beautiful wife (high-cheekboned, dark-eyed, full-lipped, and intelligent) had prepared devilled eggs with pate and spiced mayonnaise, peppers stuffed with four cheeses, brocolli and bacon salad, and the Roumanian equivalent of chicken [...]

When I was a teenager, I had a girlfriend. She was 5′ tall, with an hourglass shape out of legend, and her mother was of French-Canadian extraction. We were heavily involved, if you know what I mean.
Her mother was one of 11 children, somewhere in the lower middle. The mother and father were still alive, [...]

I don’t have much to say this evening. I’m tired as hell: I’ve been up since 6:00, and I cleaned and cooked the whole day. I got a craving for tortiere, about which I will write later, but it is a French-Canadian meat and potato pie. I made one, and a key lime pie for [...]

A pointer
The time has come. This will be the last entry in this space. At some point, I will move the bulk of the content from here to there.
The new blog is here.