I live in an urban pocket of North Carolina- the Raleigh-Durham area. I was born in NC, went to UNC-Chapel Hill, and still live here. Now that Jesse Helms is no longer in office (and, indeed, dead) I can feel a tad prouder of my home more »
My friend Melissa is running a marathon next month in January – and that’s a feat in itself, something I still can’t wrap my brain around (I was unwell for much of October, throwing off my running plan… again….). She’s taking donations to support cancer research, and I wanted to throw this information on my more »
Scott Sigler has been challenging people on Twitter to tell him why to vote FOR Obama instead of AGAINST McCain or the Bush administration. I suck at debate, so I don’t enter these discussions, but it’s been making me think. Why do I want to vote for Obama?
First, I vote democratic 99% more »
I recently wrote a story (and sold it to Hub \A/) called Mother Sponge. I was messing around with food science fiction, as food science and chemistry are hard sciences, after all. In my research I was delighted to learn that a sourdough starter is called a mother sponge (which, shockingly enough, I more »
Yeah, her 6th birthday was last week (October 14). I haven’t blogged about it much because, well, I’m not a mommy blogger and I like to keep stuff about her private. But I’ve been watching her the past couple of weeks and marveling.
She’s smart – super interested in science, princesses, octopi, Dr. Floyd, Fairly more »
Trying to finish Project: Underground. New ISBW website coming soon! Promo: Metamediocrity It is NaNoWriMo time again. 30 days (November), 50,000 words, bragging rights forever. Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles Dr. John Kessel will be speaking on speculative fiction at the NC Writers Conference
I was excited to hear that BlogHer was doing a roving conference this fall, traveling down the east coast and making a stop in Greensboro, NC. I was less than thrilled when they canceled the G’boro (and all the other southern cities) stop.
However, as Converge South is happening in more »
My latest Suicide Girls column is live! Remember, the column itself is SFW, the site as a whole is not.
There were several of us geeks in high school, several who saw those four years as long, arduous tests intended to cause so much trauma to us in order to prepare more »
Good lord, is it really Thursday? Am I seriously that far behind in blogging this? Yikes!
This past weekend, Jim, the Pink Tornado and I went to the wedding of our friends Jared Axelrod and JR Blackwell, fellow podcasters and all-around creative juggernauts. It was a small, gorgeous wedding, and we had a more »
I struggled with whether to post this here or at I Should Be Writing, but I figure this isn’t about writing, this is about dealing with readers/listeners. I wonder if I should be posting it at all, but I also worry that Twitter didn’t allow me to express myself fully enough last night. more »
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The Latest from I Should Be Writing- Scrivener review! February 3, 2012
- Fun website stuff February 1, 2012
- A different writing challenge January 31, 2012
- ISBW Special #46 – Stonecoast Writer’s Residency January 30, 2012
- Notice- No interviews for a while January 30, 2012
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