Author Archives: Eugie Foster

John Ottinger invited me to join his panel of guest bloggers this week at Grasping for the Wind.

My post, “Creative Procrastination: Kanji, Word Families, and TXT SP3EAK,” is now up.

And herein the schedule for the whole week:

Saturday
• The Book Smugglers Best Reads of 2009 by The Book Smugglers

Sunday
• Are We Post Genre? by Harry Markov

Monday
• Ramp Up Your Reading: More and Faster by Bill Ward
• Creative Procrastination: Kanji, Word Families, and TXT SP3EAK by Eugie Foster

Tuesday
• Ramp Up Your Reading: Do It Better by Bill Ward
• Book Buying: Telling Readers Where to Go by Jim C. Hines

Wednesday
• Ramp Up Your Reading: Expand Your Horizons by Bill Ward
• A Love Affair With Stories by Karen Miller

Thursday
• Working With Young Writers by Shaun Duke
• The Write Stuff by Stephen Hunt

Friday
• Science Fiction and the Death of the Human by Shaun Duke
• Shared World Fiction: Spinning Stories Out of Unmapped Bits by Rosemary Jones

Saturday
• Science Fiction Ain’t Dead (So Shut Up) by Shaun Duke
• The Things An Author Does by Pamela Freeman

Sunday
• A Golden Age for Short Fiction by Joe Sherry

I had a funny dream this morning. Can’t remember much about it, but I woke up laughing. Wish I could wake up laughing every morning.

During my commute to work on the eastbound train, a woman was sobbing her heart out while a man sat red-eyed and mournful beside her.

As I was ascending the steps of the capitol, I passed a shirtless man descending them. He grinned at me, revealing many missing teeth, and wished me “good morning.”

The world is full of stories.

Ruthless cutting of -1.5K words on The Stupid Novel and Part 4 is now at zero draft. Rah! Onward to Part 5; entering the final stretch. And with only three more weeks left in December, it really does feel like a race.

550 words on the The Stupid Novel. So close to zero draft on Part 4 I can almost taste it. Then onto Part 5, the exciting climax…

And my love/hate ping-pong match with insomnia continues. Got almost no sleep last night, but wrote 1.7K words on The Stupid Novel. I can has coffee now, plez? *twitch*

Ad hoc research overload. Brain overflowing with trivia on the kanji used in Japanese newspapers and the symbolism of carnations in the language of flowers. Gah!

Progress and stuff: 1K more words down on The Stupid Novel and made another guest blog post at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days pimping a couple excellent projects, “Mansfield Park and Mummies & Lord Dickens’s Declaration.”

Writing writing writing.

Ooo! Damien G Walter gave “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Beast; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” a shout-out (alongside Clarke, Bester, Le Guin, etc.) in his “Name the best science fiction titles” post in the Guardian!