Follow 42Blips on Twitter
Bluejo's Journal Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
http://papersky.livejournal.com/ - Bluejo's Journal - LiveJournal.com
Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of Bluejo's Journal, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
I went last night with Z and A to the Montreal launch of Claude Lalumiere's collection Objects of Worship at Paragraphe. During the question period afterwards, Claude mentioned that he believed that all writers are trying to tell part of the ur-story, and sometimes they get closer than others. ...
Other
Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid in making up fantasy names , Jhereg , Re-reading Dragaera , What is it with coffee? , Fred Pohl's The Way the Future Was . More Dragaera posts will be going up soon. In other interesting reading this week, Anne de Courcy's biography ...
Books
Anne Rice
One day in the autumn of 1996, I bought a five pound bus pass that, in those days, enabled one to take buses all over the north-west. Since Kendal had a shoe factory, it was cheaper to take the bus to Kendal to buy shoes than to buy shoes in Lancaster -- about half the price in fact. I did this ...
Other
I just realized this wasn't actually online anywhere. I wrote it in January 2001. They may not call this music. This is the air of anger. This is refusal made palpable, cast in chords as bells are cast in bronze. Each step down is inexorable. This is the necessity of the lyre. Earth opens by the ...
Other
The moon answers me back, saying: No, you imagined that lonely goddess shining hunter of the night cold solitary sister to owls. I circle you all the time, night doesn't fall in my orbit, I dance with gravity. And as for water, well, haven't you noticed the tides?
Gaming
Moon
Read this which is Jennifer Crusie first draft of a scene, and then read this which is her analysis of how she's going to fix it. This is a kind of writing about process that people don't do enough, and which people learning to write could really do with. I said in comments there that this ...
Other
Like swords, but awesomer: made up words in science fiction and fantasy , The Magus , Lord of Light .
Other
And what shall we remember? That war is horrible? People, young men traditionally, get marched off to die, in ugly futility or destined glory Rupert Brooke on a naval expedition to Constantinople or Wilfrid Owen slogging across years of broken bodies. Parade them out sadly, the ghosts of the ...
Other
Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen , Stevermer's When the King Comes Home , Brust's Agyar , Chiang's Stories of Your Life . In other news, doing research for ILE2, starting a roleplaying game, cooking a lot of gnocchi.
Other
They may not steal my children nor yet my neighbour's children not even when my neighbour's children jump at six AM. They may have unearthly beauty, but they may not steal hearts, souls, or nursemaids, nor sacrifice my friends to hell. They may sing as much as they like, even tirra lirra, folk, ...
Other
Kay's Sarantine Mosaic , Brust's The Sun the Moon and the Stars , Tenn's Of Men and Monsters My general preference is that if you have something personal to me to say about the posts, say it here, but if it's relevant to the post please say it there. I'm linking here to make it easier to have ...
Other
I am doing -- in fact I have nearly finished -- the proofs for Among Others . The typesetting is very nice, with attractive fonts and leading, and gorgeous little squiggles. I don't know the technical term for them -- there's one on the title page, and every time there's a date, which is often, ...
Other
I had a card from the postman to say there was a parcel for me, so I went to collect it expecting a book. (I'm waiting for some books.) However, the parcel was square and covered in mysterious Chinese writing -- honestly, the only parts I could read were my name and address. It was also ...
