Went to an awesome Quark writing group activity tonight with Dan Wells. It was great. We critiqued stories, had a Q&A, and then played the Battlestar Galactica game. Good, good times. The new series of BSG is amazing. It quite literally inspired my first novel: a story set in a universe where a cylon-style humans… Continue reading Awesome writing group activity with Dan Wells
Author: Joe Vasicek
Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.
Crunch time
Sixty six percent! I’ve officially passed the two thirds mark in the fourth revision for Mercenary Savior–and not a moment too soon. With only a week and a half until World Fantasy 2010, it’s crunch time. I’ll probably quit my temp job a week early in order to devote the last few days of the… Continue reading Crunch time
Blarg!
What a crappy unproductive day. This morning, I had all sorts of technical difficulties with my podcatcher and mp3 player. Spent so much time fixing those that I got no writing time in whatsoever. Work actually got out on time today, which was nice, but I had so many chores to do before institute that… Continue reading Blarg!
Dog dead workdays and killing your characters
This post is going to be super quick because I’m dead tired. Due to power surges and computer glitches, I had to work overtime today and yesterday at the warehouse, so I really haven’t had time for anything except writing and a little socializing at Leading Edge. However, things are going well. I’ll get the… Continue reading Dog dead workdays and killing your characters
Third Quarter 2010
This might be more than a little dorky, but I keep track of how much I write each day in a giant spreadsheet and do a blog post at the end of each quarter summing up how things went. It’s October already, so this is the Q3 report. Here goes: In July, I was working… Continue reading Third Quarter 2010
Just another update
Just another quick update, before I crash. Went to the Book Academy Conference at UVU today. It was fun, with several excellent panels by some local authors. More about that in a later post. My new mp3 player arrived today: a refurbished iRiver T10. An ancient, nearly obsolete machine, but it’s got a good quality… Continue reading Just another update
Gliese 581g: The first New Earth?
My friends, the revolution has begun. Scientists from UC Santa Cruz announced today the discovery of Gliese 581g, the first planet discovered in the habitable zone of its star. Let me repeat: the first planet discovered in the habitable zone of its star. In this habitable zone, temperatures are just right to support life as… Continue reading Gliese 581g: The first New Earth?
Leading Edge proposal FTW
I witnessed a friend of mine propose to his girlfriend today…at one of the weekly meetings of The leading Edge. It was awesome. We have this quirky tradition among Leading Edge slushpile readers (well, several actually). On the whiteboard, someone will write “Today is _____ day,” and then that person or someone else will fill… Continue reading Leading Edge proposal FTW
Danger: difficult plot ahead
Just a quick post before I turn in and try to catch up on the sleep that I didn’t get last night (insomnia sucks). I’m entering a very difficult part of the revision for Mercenary Savior. I’m a little more than a third of the way through the story (as you can tell from the… Continue reading Danger: difficult plot ahead
Confessions of a delinquent blogger
Man, so much has been happening, but now that I’m working an eight to five job, I never have the time to blog about it. It’s 2am and I’m running on only four hours of sleep from the previous night. Oh well, it’s a weekend. Here goes. I passed the 50k mark for the rewrite… Continue reading Confessions of a delinquent blogger