Tag: writing

  • Working titles

    When I get around to writing a novel loosely based on this period of my life (but not legally actionable), I may want to call it South Lake. I like the name for some reason. I try to name all my novels, even the ones that are still just a glimmer in my eye. Having…

  • Milestones like gallstones

    These are the days of our lives. Today I reached the 100% submission milestone on one of the most difficult writing projects of my life. I kept getting “nearly” done and then I’d be stuck again rolling a rock up a hill. This last piece, an appendix, took me at least three or four weeks…

  • Daypop Top and falling fast

    You, gentle reader, probably did not notice my most recent experience of nanofame, a weekend flirting with the top of the weblog charts on the strength of a weak little song parody I call Blogistan Pie. Now, I’m already conflicted about Radio Free Blogistan. It’s a good outlet for my writing, memoir, and publishing interests…

  • Ten years of public blather

    Today marks the tenth anniversary of my first post to Usenet (May 11, 1993). I actually posted four times that day, all to rec.music.gdead. None of the posts are especially memorable (though one gives a fair idea of my other favorite bands of that time), but I still find it noteworthy to mark the passing…

  • You must take the F train

    Back when we started Enterzone, a “hyper web text media zine art” project, the goal was not just to produce a kind of ‘zine without paper or distribution costs but also to take advantage of the new internetworked medium to publish writing and art that simply couldn’t be represented fairly or at all on paper.…

  • A day without blogging

    Since I started Radio Free Blogistan last July I’d managed to post at least one entry every day, until yesterday. Since I use RFB to aggregate blog posts to a number of different sites, this means that RFB had a continuous calendar running back to its first day. I was kinda proud of this although…