easy chicken & tomatoes
I have to admit to a partiality to recipes that involve putting something in the oven and forgetting about it for at least an hour. Here is another such recipe. This recipe came from my brother, who...
View Articlethe long and the short of it
I’ve been writing a lot of short fiction recently. Quite a few writers do this, and the saying goes that a writer’s output of short fiction goes down markedly once the writer sells a novel. Some...
View Articlewhen to use a semicolon
One of the features of reading through slush is to be faced with writers’ blatant disregard for punctuation. Really, dudes, want to make a good impression? Learn to punctuate properly, with special...
View Articlewhat writers shouldn’t blog about?
Yesterday, Jennifer Fallon, an Aussie fantasy writer whose books I’ve enjoyed very much, wrote a blog post entitled 10 things authors should never talk about. A lot of the points make perfect sense. I...
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write what you know
Notes from a Worldcon panel led by Kaaron Warren with Jack Dann and Kim Stanley Robinson. This post is based on my own interpretation of the information. Feel free to comment below if you wish to...
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The next step: should we go to Mars?
From a Worldcon panel Race to the Red planet with science fiction writers Kim Stanley Robinson and David Levine and physicist Jim Benford, identical twin brother of science fiction writer Greg Benford...
View ArticleScience and the writer
When I say that I used to work in science, some people assume that I Must Know Everything. Wouldn’t that be nice? Instead, I feel the opposite is true. When I write about astronomy, chemistry and...
View Articlewhy you should read military SF
A discussion of a Worldcon panel ‘Military SF revisited’ with panel members Toni Weisskopf (Baen’s editor of military SF), Howard Tayler (Hugo nominee and cartoonist of military SF) and Jean Johnson...
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what makes a habitable planet?
Red dwarf and planet. Image pilfered from the Hubble Space telescope site, a great source of space pictures, all of which are free to use. Last week, scientists analysing data obtained by the Keck...
View ArticleWhat’s it to you? About writing critiques
This is a post I’ve long thought about to write, about the purpose and consequences of critiques, about critique psychology, if you like. Like this post? I’ve collated this, and some other posts with...
View Articlethe 90% rule
following yesterday’s post about writing workshops, there was some discussion, mainly at other venues, about the value of writers’ circles and crit groups in general. There was some talk about writing...
View ArticleTwo spaces after a full stop?
Hmm. I haven’t yet made two posts in any single day, but an issue came up on Twitter that I absolutely have to say something about. It’s a typographical issue, about which I can speak with a bit of...
View ArticleRecipe: Macaroni with ham and cheese
I’ve been thinking for a while that I should add a recipe category to this blog. Because us writers are all busy people, and we don’t like spending long times in the kitchen making fiddly things. We...
View Articlegreen chicken curry
This recipe has become a favourite of ours because it’s so quick and easy to make. Ingredients: 500g chicken fillets (two medium-sized halves) two tablespoons of green curry paste can of coconut cream...
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