Author Archives: JE

This week’s Writer’s Five. Questions about where your main character lives Answered for Morlock, as usual. 1 – What type of home is it? Morlock is essentially homeless, so he lives wherever he is. By preference he’ll live in a … Continue reading →

More from Howard V. Hendrix. (Then I first saw the name a few days ago I thought it was a legal case–Howard versus Hendrix.) This installment by way of GallyCat. He regrets the inflammatory choice of words (without reference to … Continue reading →

The pixel-stains on my virtual fingers were fading a bit, so I engaged in a bit of technopeasant wretchedness by updating my egomaniacal shrine to myself website. Most of the changes are to the stories page, where I shifted things … Continue reading →

Kurt Vonnegut died last night in Manhattan (according to Reuters and the NYT).

This week’s Writer’s Five Time to get your Evil on – Questions for your WIP’s villain – Answering for the insectlike, mountain-dwelling Khroi who afflict Morlock (and vice versa) in an upcoming novella in Black Gate; I’m hoping they will … Continue reading →

(Poetry meme filched from eeknight.) If they told you I’m mad, then they lied.I’m odd, but it isn’t compulsive.I’m the triolet, bursting with pride;If they told you I’m mad, then they lied.No, it isn’t obsessive. Now hideAll the spoons or … Continue reading →

I like linguists and linguistics but a recent post at Language Log about the proposed California “Compassionate Choices Act” (AB 374) reminded me why linguists, like anyone else, need a smack with a wet fish every now and then. Geoff … Continue reading →

What is the “truth” about the “Titanic” (if that was its real name)? For more “truth” if you can “handle ‘it’” see the official website for the Titanic Truth Movement. (Glommed from eeknight‘s LiveJournal.)

This week’s Writer’s Five, answered for Morlock again. 1. Does your protagonist have a hobby? He makes things. But it’s more like a vocation than an avocation. 2. Does your protagonist have a best friend or a confidant of sorts, … Continue reading →

A while ago I was trying to plot a story which was (and is still) giving me some trouble and suddenly my brain plotzed. I had one of those mental crises where I realized I didn’t know something I thought … Continue reading →