Category: Record reviews
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Write-a-thon, Day 3: This is not my beautiful plot
I’ve written about typewriters before, particularly how you had to cut your manuscript with scissors and tape it back together if you had a big idea in the late innings and wanted to rearrange your plot. These days, of course, rearranging your writing is so simple and quick that you…
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Countdown to Clarion
Dear Loyal Readers: Thank you for your many compassionate comments after we lost our dog, Storm Small. They’re much appreciated. Though we plan to recruit a new dog soon, we will never replace our little man. He was the comeback kid and our most valuable player. But now I have…
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I take the pledge
In 1986 I spent six glorious summer weeks at the Clarion West Writers Workshop. I went to class Monday through Friday to study with six science fiction and fantasy writers and editors: Ed Bryant, Suzy McKee Charnas, Particia McKillip, Joan Vinge, Norman Spinrad, and David Hartwell. (I had to quit…
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Back off, man, I’m a scientist
“Ghostbusters” Ray Parker, Jr. 1984 R&B hitmaker Ray Parker, Jr. once said that his biggest challenge in writing the theme song for this movie was the lack of words that rhyme with “ghostbusters.” PolitiFact rates this assertion as True. The only two rhymes I can think of are “feather dusters”…
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Ask Run-DMSteve asks Run-DMSteve
Q: What happened to the end of 1986 Week? A: It collided with the weekend. Party! Q: Aren’t you too old to party? A: You’re never too old to party. You might have to party at 12 frames per second instead of 24, but you’re never too old to party.…
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