Starship Sofa, the fantastic fiction audio podcast, is campaigning for a Hugo nomination for Best Fanzine. I’d link to a bunch of blogs discussing this, but Cheryl Morgan lists them nicely here, and Tobias Buckell has some good thoughts here.
I can hear the dinosaurs grumbling now. Or they more »
One common complaint occuring on Twitter lately is that authors will gush and gush over the new cover of their book and never say who was behind it. “Hey,” I think. “That’s just wrong and unfair.” And then I think, “Ooops, guilty.” I did the exact same thing with Playing For Keeps. So I wrote more »
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To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it.
Even with millions of users and many “legit” organizations beginning to see the use of it, people say they don’t get twitter, that they don’t see the point of hearing what someone had for breakfast. That’s always the deal- they don’t want to hear someone else’s “what are you doing right now?”
And I call more »
We’re back! We talk the holidays and about The 39 Clues, Mary Poppins, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Captain Underpants! We also talk about the upcoming science fair at Princess Scientist’s school.
What we’re reading now:
With Dad: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. With Mom: The White Mountains by John Christopher. more »
Kung Fu is progressing slowly. I’m so out of shape that I tend to go to one class and then mess myself up so badly that I can’t make the next one (I go Thurs/Sat – I haven’t made a Saturday class all month). The previous class was tolerable, we worked control moves (Chin-na) which more »
Today Princess Scientist talks with her dad about The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (and other Gaiman books). They touch on The Hobbit as well, discussing its flaws.
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My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon more »
Sunday I decided getting back into running would get me into better shape for kung fu, so I started the Couch 2 5K plan again. I’d done it a couple of years ago and was very pleased with the outcome. I even ran in a 5K race. Haven’t raced since high school.
It was 25 more »
Our daughter has decided she wanted her own podcast to talk about books and science, her two favorite things (that aren’t pokemon). So we decided to start one with her. We started last fall, but decided not to announce till we had a couple in the can. I’ll be posting them here in the next more »
Categories
The Latest from I Should Be Writing- 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
- Eligibility in Hugos and Campbells January 24, 2012
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