It’s now my second February living in southwest Ontario, with 50F weather and scattered rain showers. The snow, which didn’t fall until mid-January, is a memory and it will be at least a week before we have any chance of seeing more. What the hell, Canada? When people learned I was moving to Canada, I [...]
Author Archives: Adam
Jan
04
2012
Wither the sickness
Life with chronic health conditions and no health insurance is interesting. Celiac disease is pretty much a condition of maintenance. There’s no cure and the only preventative measure is avoiding eating or drinking gluten (wheat, barley, rye, and oats). Gluten is everywhere. Beer and bread are bad but I’ve found it in foods I would never [...]
Jan
01
2012
Quick Stats – 2010 vs. 2011 submissions
I thought it’d be interesting to look at some rough numbers, based on my Duotrope stats, year over year. 2010 13 submissions to 10 different markets 4 stories on submission 13 rejections, 5 personal (38%) 10 markets 0 acceptances 2011 43 submissions to 36 different markets 11 stories on submission 39 rejections, 16 personal (41%) [...]
Dec
19
2011
2011 Published Short Fiction
Seeing as we’re close to the end of 2011 and it’s unlikely I’ll have anything else published this calendar year, now is as good a time as any to recap the short fiction I’ve had published in the last twelve months. Self-promotion is so totally not my thing. Jaym Gates recent Inkpunks post about awards [...]
Dec
13
2011
Three Years
We’d been in California for a few days and the previous night at my work Christmas party. Three years ago this morning, we flew to Las Vegas. One of us (not me) was airsick as we landed in the middle of a sand storm. Ironic, because this was literally a whirlwind. Work put us up [...]
Dec
01
2011
Why insider trading by members of Congress is worse than it sounds
If you had asked me if members of Congress were exempt from insider trading before today, I would have said yes, of course. I would have argued that, with the kinds of information that our congressmen and -woman are privy to, they especially should not be allowed to use non-public information to trade stock for [...]
Dec
01
2011
Fail. Fail Harder. Fail Better.
NaNoWriMo is over. I failed to win. I failed, but there are lessons in failure. I set out to do a few things aside from writing 50k words. I wanted to learn to turn off my internal editor when I needed to, so that I could write first drafts on the computer. I wanted to [...]
Nov
30
2011
An occupied mind can never be evicted
I wrote this in the middle of the night as news of the raid on the #occulyla camp was breaking on twitter, half asleep but compelled to get some of my thoughts written down before I fell asleep: The police are within their duties to do remove occupiers as occupiers are within theirs to commit [...]
Nov
21
2011
#NaNoWriMo day 20: Struggling against the event horizon
I feel like I’ve been at a near standstill the last four days. With one zero day among them, I’ve barely scratched a thousand words among them. To make up for the shortfall, I need to write roughly 2,400 words/day though the rest of the month in order to hit the Nano goal of 50k. [...]
Nov
17
2011
#NaNoWriMo day 16
I found my stride yesterday, sixteen days in. I didn’t strictly follow end of day guidelines for Nano, calling it a day somewhere close to 1AM. I drafted a scene and a part of the next and it’s the best writing I’ve done all month. It’s what all others will be held up and compared [...]
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