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I've recently finished a novelette (bordering on a novella– it's a little over 15,000 words) that I'd like to sell. So I'm looking for a market for it. Any ideas?

My thoughts: I'd like it to be...

Isn't it just wonderful when spambots act like trolls?

It has been forty-four days since the processed-meat robots descended from the sky.

Forty-four days, and no sign of another living human.

I've traveled so far. Wandering, fighting, waiting...

No, you don't. But if you want to be a clockmaker, then you're going to need to have to take apart a clock at some point. That's the best way to find out how it works.

If anybody wants to go...

Oh, and PS: if your teacher's response to any question about writing was always "look it up", she must not have been a very good teacher.

If you're directly copying an author's words, or copying most of the words and putting new ones in, that's plagiarism.

If you're copying an author's style for purposes of comedic effect, that's...

I can think of a good reason to light a fire at noon– the local climate is polar, and someone just came in from the freezing cold. Of course, the impression that I got from the prologue was that it...

Nothing scares me. Seriously– it wigs me out, man.

@DaveAK: Heh. Good eye.

To rectify this dearth of Floydination, I will recommend three very early Pink Floyd songs.

~Astronomy Domine
~Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun...

Since I enjoy metal, here's a couple of SFF-themed metal songs and albums:

Blind Guardian, Nightfall in Middle-earth: A metal adaptation of the Silmarillion. Basically imagine if Queen and Iron...

Don't dumb it down.

Kids are smarter than you might think. Just write a story, and see what happens.

I love Jonathan Coulton. Do you love Jonathan Coulton? Of course you do. If you didn't, you wouldn't have a soul.

So, in honor of Scalzi's conversation with Jonathan Coulton on the main blog,...

…On a related note to all this stuff we've been talking about, here's a link to a video about good female characters in a slightly different yet often overlapping medium: video games.

(If you're...

That is one thing that I notice with male writers. Since, in our society, feminine characteristics are seen as "weak", a lot of male writers (and some female ones, too) create characters who I call...

This sounds a lot like the Dragonlance Chronicles, in that it's a story about a war between various colors of dragons.

Apart from that, though, the details about the main characters are...

Ah, yes… Final exams, the scourge of nearly all people between the ages of 15 and 22…

I should know. I'm right about to start them (although UCSC doesn't let out until mid-June).

I've been good.

I've been checking in daily, waiting for discussions to resume. (They probably will at some point– we just need to wait.)

Ian P. Johnson: "Cassandra". First Draft, part 10 of 17.


I know that I was lying. And I never managed to convice myself of that.

One Saturday in 2021, I took the train into San Francisco....

Ian P. Johnson: "Cassandra". First Draft, part 9 of 17.


In 2006, I went off to Stanford to study computer engineering, with a full scholarship.

I graduated from Stanford in 2011 with a...

Ian P. Johnson: "Cassandra". First Draft, part 8 of 17


I remember her as being the most beautiful woman in existence. Tall, elegantly thin, ivory-smooth skin, straight brown hair, full pouty...