I now have $770 in total pledged money for the Write-a-thon. Only $240 to go. Don’t make me beg, peoples! It all starts next week. How will I be motivated to write if I cannot raise $1000? Don’t make a Tempest cry…
I just need $40/week more. 4 more people at $10/week. Just 4! C’mon.
According to the progress meter on my site, I am just a scooch over halfway to my goal of getting $1000 in sponsorships! Yep. Right now I have $510 in pledged money, which leaves only $490 to go. If 9 more people pledge $10/week, I’m all set! Or 18 people at […]
I know Mac people get very few things they can call their own, but it’s completely unfair that Scrivener is one of them. Why can’t they stop being jerks and make a Windows version? Or, at least, a Unix version so I can put it on my eee!
I’ve tried other programs that do similar things. […]
I’m participating in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon again this year, raising money for the workshop and for the Butler Scholarship. I’m in the process of finding sponsors to help me reach my goal of raising $1000 total.
For those of you who don’t know, a write-a-thon is a lot like a marathon. Instead of […]
I know, this is very different from every other day of my life.
Today on Fantasy I have some commentary up about one of the things that annoy me about many fantasy stories and novels I have read:
…my biggest pet peeve is with stories and novels that lack specificity–specificity of place, time, culture, even ethnicity. The […]
I was busy all morning doing IAF stuff and missed out on the beginning of this “debate” going on in the comments to Lisa’s story on Fantasy. It’s kind of ironic that this came up today because yesterday I had a long conversation about a similar issue surrounding one of my stories. I wonder, actually, […]
The recent stuff about Authors Behaving Badly reminded me that I wanted to write something on Mike Brotherton’s SFNovelists post about reviews and reviewers. A little while ago he put up some guidelines for what he thinks reviewers shouldn’t do from the perspective of a writer. The basics:
Guideline 1: Reviewers should stick to reviewing the […]
Scalzi encourages authors to post their 1-star Amazon reviews because, hey, it may sting, but it’s not the end of the world. What inspired this? Why, an author acting as if bad reviews are the end of the world! Not just by whining and complaining about them, but by actively harassing the […]
I have come across a minor research hurdle and wondering if anyone out there is able to help. It’s a simple yet hard-to-Google topic that I’d rather not get into publicly (not because it’s embarrassing, just… other reasons). Anyway, if you are a Native American individual and/or know a great deal about the Native […]
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You can call me Tempest.
I'm a writer, most often committing acts of Fantasy and Science Fiction, though I have been known to slip in and out of genres. I'm a famous blogger, an editor of some repute, and hopeless convention addict.
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