spquigley.com
I write literature and software. Latest short story upcoming in the journal The Nature of Things: Duality and Paradox.
58 posts
604 followers
695 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
(she is fine! Just have to keep her from licking her paw for the next few weeks)
comment in response to
post
the mimicking happens to me and boy golly its brutal
comment in response to
post
The journal should be publishing it within the next couple of months! www.lonemountainlit.com/home/issues
comment in response to
post
Preach brother
comment in response to
post
another finger closes on the monkeys paw
comment in response to
post
I got a boox brand one the other week to read Wikipedia and it's alrightish, a bit slow, but the form factor's nice. Mine's a bit too small for manga I suspect
comment in response to
post
I always kinda try to engage in "play" whenever reading/writing loses its wonder. But I feel you with this, it's a real tightrope balancing the two
comment in response to
post
I think the service is very bad but the value proposition is "we're gonna make you a polished author big boy". Looks like the point is the "do it well" part
comment in response to
post
"for his eleventy first birthday caleb and his memoir were published at the local gas station. so when you waltzed into a lukoil shack you saw his name on the shelf, and at thanksgiving he brought a book with his name on the spine"
that is probably why
comment in response to
post
burgeg
comment in response to
post
glorb's wonderful for transitioning from virtualized to containerized environments but when I want to poc something it's really lackluster and the Jenkins plugin is just useless
comment in response to
post
Nearly lost hope after reading this as sneezes
comment in response to
post
minix just cheering from the corner of the ring like cus damato
comment in response to
post
splorgus patch notes hosted on some Yellowbook© 1996 1997 1998 2004 2023 php darling
comment in response to
post
oh my shit I have never heard of something so wrecked in all my days
comment in response to
post
unless you are one of these infernal arch tinkerers I would slap a compatible ubuntu version on that bad boy
comment in response to
post
new thanksgiving lore for yours truly that the ham must be defrosted
comment in response to
post
wait you can what
comment in response to
post
my mother fears frying that silly bird and for this I thank my lucky stars
comment in response to
post
I do think that, if the writer's goal is to make a story strangers will want to read, the right approach becomes to do whatever consistently puts words on the page. If you squint a bit, chapters are sort of just short stories with context-- not really, but kind of!
comment in response to
post
When the blocker's something like a day job, I do think setting the thing aside is the correct approach, though. You kind of need to be steeped in the piece to really make the right judgement call.
comment in response to
post
That can be rather painful, so I have a "Writing Extras" file where I dump all the stuff that didn't work out. Softens the blow a bit and nine times out of ten, I won't revisit any of the stuff I cut.
comment in response to
post
For novels, it feels a lot trickier (for me)-- I'll usually backtrack to the last "stable" place of the novel, where I feel I have a handle of where to take things. I'll cut all the stuff after that point, as usually it's indicative of major structural issues.
comment in response to
post
I think everyone's different with it-- for me, it's usually symptomatic of the story's purpose being underdeveloped. Usually I will throw the (short) story in the proverbial trash and salvage its imagery/ideas in a later piece.
comment in response to
post
The "dead end" drafts have been interesting lately-- where you're working on a piece and suddenly it's like "oh crap, this piece is beyond me", or "this piece would require a part of something I don't quite have in myself yet".
comment in response to
post
my aunt would excommunicate me were I to place a bowl of literal mustard beside the turkey
comment in response to
post
in this wasteland of a state I have found myself in they call the gravy sauce
comment in response to
post
cannot fathom carting a live living animal in my mother's home and just destroying their thanksgiving feast
comment in response to
post
how long must I bear this yoke
comment in response to
post
The contraption cost twenty one american dollars apparently