Today I gained another year for my age. It didn't happen all at once -- it's been accumulating for a while now. My loss has also been accumulating (deccumulating?) for a while, though not as long. Earlier this year, I set a goal of getting my weight down under 200 pounds by my birthday. According to my scale this morning,... read more »
Apparently, the new version of Wordpress was, for some reason, classifying everyone's comments as spam without even putting them in the moderation queue, so I wasn't being notified of them. And since spam comments older than 15 days were deleted automatically, probably some legitimate comments were lost. Why didn't anyone tell me that their comments were never showing up and... read more »
The Codex Writers forum just finished the Codexian Idol contest. What was the Codexian Idol contest, you ask? In the first round, all the contestants anonymously submitted the first 500 words of a story. The voters then voted on the stories, and the top eight moved on to the second round. After a few days for the authors to add... read more »
The latest issue of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show is out. It includes my story "Salt of Judas," with a great illustration by Deena Warner. The cover story is by my fellow Writers of the Future Volume XX author Brad Beaulieu. Another story (not online yet, but still part of the issue) is by Scott Danielson, a new author... read more »
I've finished the first draft of my screenplay. (Since it's a TV pilot, it's technically called a teleplay.) It's 53 pages, which is actually about the right length, despite the general rule of thumb that 1 page = 1 minute. I learned a ton while writing it, so I think it was worthwhile even in the extremely likely event that... read more »
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On the Codex writers' forum, in a discussion about characterization, author Rick Novy said, "I'd love to know what Huck Finn would do if forced into* an airlock by Klingons." My response: WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. Throwed out of a wreck by such a gang as that! But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd... read more »
The DragonComet Short Story Contest is held in conjunction with Life, the Universe and Everything (BYU's science fiction and fantasy symposium.) This year, my story "Bird-Dropping and Sunday" took second place in the adult short story contest. (Just to clarify, that means I, as the author, am an adult. It was not a contest for "adult" short stories.) Now if... read more »
Why are so many fantasies medieval? What makes fantasy fantasy? Do you need a specific setting, or specific characters? Can you have futuristic fantasy? (Brandon Sanderson, Dave Wolverton, Rebecca Moesta, Eric James Stone)
