SH fall fund drive
As October draws to a close, it's time for a semiannual tradition: Jed suddenly remembering that we're having a fund...
Phone calls
I keep forgetting to mention this here: I've more or less stopped answering my home phone. Much of the time...
RYT Hospital
It's been argued that the Hugo Award for Best Website, if it's to become a regular Hugo category, should go...
Orwell on writing
Vardibidian's comments on The Elements of Style indirectly brought to mind George Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language."...
Prolificity
While I'm (sort of) on the subject of that old journal entry about author gender and prolificness, perhaps an update...
Link exchange spam
I regularly get spam from webmasters asking me to participate in a link exchange; their site has nothing to do...
Blogstuff
A few notes about Movable Type and such: There are still a bunch of tweaks I want to make, to...
World Fantasy?
I'm still waffling about whether to go to World Fantasy Con. A week ago, I was absolutely certain I wasn't...
Another disappearing weekend
Been a while since I've posted anything personal, hasn't it? Some assorted updates: First, I apologize for all those items...
Peeve: Stereopsis and depth perception
I see this regularly in stories, but I also hear people say it regularly in real life, and I just...
Zinsser
Just came across something I posted to a mailing list back in mid-1999; thought it was worth recycling as a...
Backstory
This occurred to me, more or less irrelevantly, while I was reading a story in Asimov's recently: Fiction is often...