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dr_phil_physicsThe Midwest Bands Together -- Solidarity With a Shovel!
SF writer John Scalzi's blog The Whatever has a nice comment stream on the snow/ice/blizzard/Storm O Death rolling through the lower Midwest tonight. My contribution to the comments:
Just One Lousy 8am Class In The Morning
We'll see if I get there. (grin)
Too Many Ideas
I keep getting new story ideas faster than I can write them. So I'm struggling to find time to get the ideas and some of the text down before they evaporate. Writer's block is a common enough affliction, but no one seems to talk about Writer's Flood. (double-edged-grin)
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SF writer John Scalzi's blog The Whatever has a nice comment stream on the snow/ice/blizzard/Storm O Death rolling through the lower Midwest tonight. My contribution to the comments:
Dr. Phil | February 13, 2007 07:15 PM
Amazing the number of Whatever posters from the Midwest. And I was just waiting for one of the sonsofbritches from California to start The Gloat. What I like about blizzards is that in the Midwest, snow comes down, snow goes sideways, but the house doesn't move.
At last report the Line o' Death is tracking along I-94, not I-96. That means we'll get a little snow where I live in West Michigan and the high winds will drift it some. Maybe the garbage can will stay in its drift and not wander out down the icy road in the morning. But when my long commute reaches Kalamazoo County, well, K-zoo has no concept of what it means to plow snow and the university does little better -- and the university CLOSES so dang late if they bother to close that I'll be on the road trying to get to my thrice-damned 8am class.
Who came up with 8am classes in the winter anyway? Oh, wait, the university renamed this SPRING semester the other year. (smacks-hand-on-forehead)
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Just One Lousy 8am Class In The Morning
We'll see if I get there. (grin)
Too Many Ideas
I keep getting new story ideas faster than I can write them. So I'm struggling to find time to get the ideas and some of the text down before they evaporate. Writer's block is a common enough affliction, but no one seems to talk about Writer's Flood. (double-edged-grin)
Dr. Phil
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Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 00:45 (UTC)And I thought I was the only aspiring SF writer around here...
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Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:26 (UTC)A lot of us gather at ConFusion (http://www.stilyagi.org/cons/confusion.html), held every January in Troy MI which admittedly is on the "other" side of the state. But the Troy Marriott seems to like having the ConFusion crowd around and it's a great con.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:37 (UTC)Dr. Phil
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Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:13 (UTC)No, I was more enthralled at the notion that there was another actual SF writer here in West Michigan (the GR area, I presume, since you talk about commuting to Kzoo and attending plays at GVSU, my dear alma mater). So far, I've been frustrated that others of our ilk seem to be concentrated in Ann Arbor, including my good friend Merrie Haskell, with whom I'm organizing a Gun Lake-based writer's retreat for this summer (she's got access to a cottage and I've got, I dunno, moxie).
Hm. Not always quite so paranthetical.
Anyway, mostly just wanted to say hi, because I'm a lonely soul reaching out for the briefest touch of SFnal fellowship, or some damn thing.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 21:50 (UTC)veinvain.I resemble that remark but I use a "k".
We had our storm "surge" yesterday. Double-plus un-fun.
BTW Saw Ms. Bujold during the wekend. She did some readings and autographs and attended several filks. She wasn't doing much smiling, though.
Best to you and Mrs. Dr.
JMK
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Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 02:30 (UTC)Yeah, I cleverly live out past GVSU and work at WMU. Part-time, mind you. I do all that commuting to teach Physics classes part-time for small amounts of money. As I tell my students, they're in trouble because they're dealing with a teacher who isn't doing it for the money. (grin)
And I'm still a "young" writer, i.e. just a couple of publications of short stories. Still collecting the obligatory ton of rejections first. (double-entry-grin)
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Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 02:32 (UTC)Dr. Phil
Re: using name in ...
Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 02:39 (UTC)... and put it together.
I think I was confused because I thought you could type. (G-R-I-N)
See ya, Jeff.
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Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:15 (UTC)My only sale so far has been in the Subterranean issue that Scalzi edited, and I'm racking up the rejections myself.
If you're interested in the writing retreat thing (much, much less intense than Clarion) let me know and I'll keep you in the loop on it.
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Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:16 (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:12 (UTC)Clarion is one of those things I was sure I'd never be able to do. But in late 2003 I realized that I could afford it and could afford to take off Summer teaching (since Clarion stradled WMU's Summer I and II sessions), and applied the day they opened for the 2004 season. It helped that it would just be in East Lansing -- I moved a pair of dual processor Pentium Pro towers and a LaserJet 4ML of my own from my WMU office to Clarion and maintained my "regular" writing environment. Not that laptops suck, mind you. (grin)
Smartest thing I did was go to WisCon over Memorial Day 2004 and participate in their writing crit workshop, so I had a chance to crit work and be critted before hitting Clarion the next week. (grin)
A significant percentage of Clarion students arrange to be in transition between jobs in order to take off that six weeks plus some decompression time.
Do you know
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