Close reading
There are two parts of my editorial duties that I think might make useful exercises for writers; they provide an...
Cover letters
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has an entertaining piece on cover letters, bad and good. Note that the Onion article she links...
Title giveaway
Titles are hard. However, this does not mean that the title of your story should provide information that doesn't appear...
Fictional hangers
Ha—too good to be true. A boingboing reader reveals that Miles Kington, the author of the coat-hanger court-case pieces, is...
Obsolescence
We all know that software rapidly becomes obsolete. But what about the word software? Specifically, in the post-capitalist economy, will...
Hangers-on
The Independent reports on the case of a British man accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels....
Workshop
That previous entry was going to be a brief note about the game and a brief note about today's workshop...
Game over
I could spend the next few hours writing about how the game went last night, but I still have six...
Ecce Eco echo
Elliott forwards this from Umberto Eco in today's New York Times: "The problem with the Internet is that it gives...
Scary ad
"Yahoo! DSL: Internet that logs onto you." Eep! Run away! My brain is enough of a mess without the whole...
Clute
John Clute is a marvel. He's probably the most literary reviewer/critic in sf today; his reviews are sometimes a little...
Not entirely glum
I should add briefly that things have not been miserable; most of the week has been fine, really. This morning...