Recent adventures in dorkdom . . .

• Call me single-minded . . . (1/27/2012) - . . . but today this is all that matters. Today–a half hour ago, actually–I finished the book that began as a story at Viable Paradise back in October. It started out as “Dehado” but lately I’ve been calling it TCAFOYPR, sort of. I am very much enamored with it. And drafting is done! Done [...]
• You’re not fooling anyone . . . (1/27/2012) - John Scalzi says that you’re not fooling anyone when you take your laptop to a coffee shop. But yesterday, I did just that–tucked myself into a corner with a hot chocolate and a scone the size of my head–and banged out three chapters. Solid chapters, good chapters, too. Today, on a cold rainy day spent [...]
• Riddley Walker Time (1/25/2012) - It’s strange how a book can irrevocably change one’s world. I was a year out of college when I read Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker . I was working in a college library, and I’d gone through a long, unhappy spat of reading “the classics,” then a moderately less unhappy period of reading Margaret Atwood and [...]

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