by Jan Bear | Feb 24, 2004 | Uncategorized
I know it’s heresy in these waning days before the “post-Passion of the Christ era begins, but I repeat: It’s a movie. It’s a movie by a man who cut his teeth in the action genre. This is not a put-down. I have no doubt of Mel Gibson’s...
by Jan Bear | Feb 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
I pulled an LP out yesterday, Crosswinds, vintage 1974, by Billy Cobham. This jazz drummer literally plays up a storm on side one of this classic, which I haven’t heard since, well, probably not since the ’80s. (Funny how time flies when the technology...
by Jan Bear | Feb 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
All of you who have been waiting to find out whether I enter Lent crippled this year will be pleased (or perhaps outraged) to learn that I am not. This is a good thing, a grace, actually, since once again I didn’t do any of the exercises I resolved to do to...
by Jan Bear | Feb 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
James D. Macdonald is running a writing course here. Lots of good advice, including this: write two hours of new stuff every day. Revise later. I wonder if I can get up at 5 a.m. and do that. I’ll let you know tomorrow.
by Jan Bear | Feb 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
New member of the blogroll is this page: IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE. I’ll have to take it in in small bites, because the background makes my eyes jitter. All the same, it’s a perceptive look at the many subgenres of science...
by Jan Bear | Feb 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
A correspondent on a writing list said that a friend of his wasn’t pleased with his recent success at selling his fiction. The friend thought that writing fiction was an intrinisically self-centered and selfish undertaking. I disagree. God creates the world in...