http://www.sarahgoslee.com Professor of Indeterminate Studies Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a month ago I asked for advice on learning more about literary criticism, especially as pertains to science fiction. I promised I'd summarize the results. Jess left a very good comment, discussing different forms of criticism and a few resources. She also pointed out the essay collection Bringing the Devil ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/03/08/criticism-and-reading/ Band OK Go wins the Internet. (via Topless Robot) Edit: Wired has an article on the making of this video, with videos of its own. It really was done in a single shot! http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/03/02/rube-goldberg/ Two billion eyes blinked for the first time. Two billion feet stepped out from under the bed, from inside the closet, from places lost and forgotten. A billion hands groped for a weapon. Sharp was most pleasing, but anything would do. Not all could join their sisters -- so many ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/02/26/come-the-revolution/ Patrick Rothfuss, writer and generous human being, runs a fundraiser for Heifer International each year (to which he donates a lot of his own money and even more of his own time). He's enlisted the SFF community to good effect: this year there were all sorts of prizes available, from ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/02/19/more-loot/ Just a quickie, as I have to go shovel snow. Again. Here's one way to depict my day at work: a mousepath. Today was for numbercrunching. You can get the mousepath software yourself (Mac/Linux, Windows - by Anatoliy Zenkov and picked up by me here). Hey, guess what? Having a blizzard does ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/02/10/a-miscellany-buried-in-snow/ Since reading Elizabeth Bear's blog regularly, I've been exposed to some very interesting literary criticism. I asked her how to learn that skill - I'm very analytical, but lack the concepts/vocabulary of literary criticism. Previous attempts to learn something about the formal discipline have ended badly, mostly with cursing. A ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/02/04/becoming-a-critic/ There was the one where you not only removed the e-book of 1984 from the store, but sucked it off of people's Kindles without telling them. There was the one where you classified gay- and lesbian-themed books, including YA and health books, as "Adult", thus removing them from lists and rankings. ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/02/02/oh-amazon/ Moonlight flooded the sky, only the brightest stars outshining it. The icy January wind bit deep into her bones. Once she'd been oblivious to temperature, even without her fur coat, but the past few winters had been hard. There were other compensations: her children, grandchildren, even the third and fourth ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/01/29/moon/ My attention has been pulled in a thousand different directions lately, and writing has suffered the most. Not much blogging, very little fiction. Much pondering of fiction though. I seem to have developed some sort of process for long pieces of fiction. Come up with an idea: a setting, a scene, ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/01/25/fragmented/ Pirate loot, even! One of my favorite writing blogs, Magical Words, is a group effort by several authors. A few I'd read before finding the blog; most were new to me, but I've made an effort to get to know all of their fiction better. I like reading this and other ... http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2010/01/08/loot/