Category: craft
Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it:
—SGJ
The biggest lie I tell myself about revising is that I do it as I go. You’ve heard this, right? I don’t think I’m coming up with anything new here, anyway. And, it’s a seductive thing to believe-to want to believe, at least. And th…
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the weirdlookingness, and the occasional bulletpoint for what would seem to be no reason, but really that’s the only way to keep the link from trying, and …
what this is:
last week, maybe the week before, I don’t know, I had a lot to write, so figured to keep myself somewhat on-task by making myself log down what-all was going on. this is that—closing down files, found it off to the side. just added the images and stuff. and, to be sure, this isn’t a success-story week: wrote a lot, but not exactly what I needed to be writing.
Sunday:
done for the moment with The Only Good Indians copyedits, just finished up months and months …
- “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“
- “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“
- “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“
- “skeleton of glass and marmelade“
- “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“
- “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“
- “In Which
Just had to watch and watch this for a piece I’m getting together. But, too, it’s always playing in my heart:
Well, interview at LA Review of Books, but BY Billy J. Stratton:
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:
- “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“
- “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“
- “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“
- “Why narrating an audiobook is a LOT harder than you think“
- “Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Joi
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