Writing Upside Down

A friend of mine on Facebook admitted this morning that she was terrified of making changes in her unpublished epic (which is, as I understand it, under contract). I’d be terrified too, methinks, and I feel her pain. While The Fall isn’t anywhere near epic...

Word, Interrupted

So I just posted this status update on Facebook: “At irregular intervals, Word decides that every word I’ve told it to ignore is suddenly a gross violation of the order of the universe and underlines them all in red again. At that point, I must go to each...

Thoughts on a Rainy Saturday

So, here’s the thing: the Tolari split off from us around the time we invented the wheel. They were taken, genetically engineered, plopped onto a planet something on the order of 150 trillion miles away from Earth, and left to develop as they would. Before the...