Please pardon the lack of posts for the last (and next) few days. I’ve travelled half-way across the US to look for a new house. We’re relocating AND PASSING THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU!
Anywhoozle, I’ll be back to posting with the Weekend Redirect, then on to more opinions, writing prompts, and unnatural discursions.
TTFN!
An amazing piece on women writing hard sci-fi, and it is frigging ridiculous that this kind of things happen. It’s not supposed to be a #@$#& boy’s club. The story is what’s important, not the dangly or non-dangly bits of the writer.
Anyone who knows me even passingly will know that I dislike pulling gender into a discussion at the first available opportunity. I don’t “do” gender-related panels, and I don’t favour pushing women’s work for the sake that it’s done by women. We have a number of really awesome female science fiction writers. My most favourite-ever writer, C.J. Cherryh, is a woman, and so is Lois McMaster Bujold, another one of my favourites. Kim Stanley Robinson, another one of my favourite writers, is a man, and so is Stephen Baxter. I like their subject matter and that’s why I like those writers. This is how I tick.
I also get weary of people blaming their lack of success too easily on external factors. Having success is a matter of luck and talent–but mostly luck, and persistence–before being a function of anything else. I believe that quietly chipping away and engaging with…
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Ryan Lanz kindly shares a post by J.J. Hensley (visit his blog as well) likening pitching a novel to… well, you’ve seen the title. It’s a fascinating read!
How Pitching A Novel Is Like Being In The Secret Service
Thanks, ryanlanz.com!
Also, visit J.J. Hensley’s blog Steel City Intrigue for more fascinating blog posts. And buy their books for *&$#*& sakes!
Imagine that you are renowned as one of the finer judges of your country. You are at the apex of your career, having spent decades studying law and applying care and diligence to that profession. You are brilliant; a man who others wish to be.
Then, your own mind turns on you.
Continue reading “Book Review: Memoirs of my Nervous Illness”
Oh, Netflix “Daredevil” TV series: I love you, but sometimes not so much.
“Daredevil” season one was the only superhero-themed TV series that I was excited to watch all the way through. It slowed down occasionally, but I found something to love about every episode.
Except for the fight scenes. Although I suppose it’s appropriate for a TV series about a blind crime fighter to have fight choreography created by someone who apparently can’t see. This is a complaint I had from season one, and it doens’t look like things are going to change in the preview to season two.
The problem is that in a superhero anything, fight scenes are pretty important. So I am going to break down why I think most of the fight scenes in Daredevil don’t work.
Continue reading “The New Daredevil Preview: They Cain’t Fight!”
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