Something interesting just happened to me on Facebook. A friend of mine posted the result of an online test that analyzes your writing called I Write Like. According to the special little algorithms of this site, my friend’s writing resembled that of William Gibson. Colour me intrigued. I plugged in an excerpt from my own… Continue Reading
Yet another month has come and gone, and yet another pile of books has been added to my “read” shelf. I picked up the pace after February’s lull in reading. Right now, though, there’s a bigger fish to fry – I want to talk about the fact that Amazon has purchased Goodreads. At this point, I… Continue Reading
So, in a previous post, I talked about how I was a finalist in this year’s Friends of the Merril short story contest. This means that I now have the opportunity to pitch a novel to ChiZine Publications, even though they’re currently closed to submissions. The problem is, I don’t have a novel ready to… Continue Reading
Today was the deadline for this year’s Hugo Award nominations, so I finally got down to work and submitted my ballot. I’m not sufficiently knowledgeable of the field to submit nominations in every category, but I also wanted to talk about what works I did nominate, and why. So here goes: Best Novel The Steel Seraglio… Continue Reading
Writing News Taking Tobin’s course in creative writing has really increased my confidence, and so I decided to try my hand at writing a few short stories (flash fiction, really) and entering them into contests. One of the contests is still ongoing, but I have great news about the other one: I made it on… Continue Reading
If there’s one thing I love to do, it’s to burden myself with a huge “to-read” pile. And, goddamnit, thanks to Marina Warner, that pile just got even bigger. But let me back up a bit. I listen to a lot of podcasts; one that I subscribe to in particular is the CBC radio show Writers… Continue Reading
Something happened today that was so weird, so hilarious and meta, that I have to write it down now or else. It’s a quarter past 11 at night. I’ve just gotten home from my creative writing class. So I’ll keep this short. Tonight in Tobin‘s class, we talked about the importance of suspense to a story. Your… Continue Reading
On New Year’s Day, I was all rarin’ to go to get started on my 50 book challenge for 2013. Now that the month is over, the tally is pretty good: 5 books! However, that figure doesn’t take into account the huge number of short stories I read and/or listen to on a regular basis. I caught… Continue Reading
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