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Warning: this entry wanders all over the place; also, it contains sarcasm. I was intrigued by the US News and...

Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold over 95 million songs. As they approach 100 million, they're giving away fifty 20GB...

The Wooden Rocket Awards have been announced several days early. The winner of the Best Online Magazine award is Science...

I glanced at someone's license plate on the way to work yesterday morning and suddenly realized that I never...

I noticed this in a recent story in Asimov's, but it's something I've seen in a fair bit of other...

Gotta run off to work momentarily, and am only half-awake. But briefly: Latest issue of Emerald City is up, including...

Subtlety in fiction often includes not explicitly saying what a character does or why they do it—leaving it up to...

Recently happened across the excellent How to write a best selling fantasy novel. Excerpt: All Fantasy Lands have every conceivable...

I was going to spend this evening doing magazine stuff, but was kinda headachey and finding it hard to focus,...

It's been pointed out that if you look regularly at the main most-recent-entries page of my journal, you can see...

Writing challenge/exercise: write a story-beginning that implies an era and/or place in as few words as possible, without explicitly specifying...

It seems to me a lot of sf (especially urban fantasy) focuses on rock music: characters who are in rock...