Month: October 2016

With my eyes:

• the new Strange Horizons website looks pretty snazzy
• Art in Renaissance Italy, 3rd Ed. by John T. Paoletti
• The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers
• Hanibal on Amazon Prime

 

With my ears:

• Deftones, anything and always

 

With my heart:

Failure is the gift I give my future self.

 

At first there was a story that started — “‘Worms got most of ’em,” the man said. The thief dropped the apple and tried to run.” It was going to be a story about the moon and clones. Moonpunk! But … that story turned out not to be a story about the moon and clones. That story turned out to be a story about a plague in Narnia Wonderlandia. The story about the moon and clones starts like this: “Five minutes after the convention goers sat down to a lunch of wilted salads and engmeat a wave of panic swept through the grand hall; somebody was killing Einsteins.” Moon noir!

Maybe I can write it before it changes its mind again.

With my eyes:

• Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
• Kushiel’s Dart by Jaqueline Carey
• the staggering art of Julie Dillion

With my ears:

• silence and dog snores

With my heart:

• “A writer’s real work is the endless winnowing of sentences” — Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing