Worlds of Paul Jessup

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Check it. I plan on doing this for Nano this year- I’ve done it before.  And I plan on going way past the 50k mark, almost doubling it.  I’ve done that before, too.

Check it out, my surrealist fairy tale gone gonzo, A Word Without Ghosts, is rec’d for a Nebula.  Much thanks to Rick Bowes

Anyone else having weird problems with the latest WordPress?  Mine seems to be cutting off titles and randomly moving text around after I save a post.  It’s not hard to go back in and move it back to normal, but it is frustrating.

Oh, I know, in the last post I sounded all cranky and boo hiss.  But really, I love reading epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, the old, ruin laced adventures of travelers searching for treasure amongst fallen civilizations.  Always good, always fun, when done well or interesting.  Problem is, there is only so much you can do [...]

Check it:
http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/why-no-heroic-fantasy/
This argument is getting old. Yes, yes, over and over again we’re told by “fans of heroic fantasy” that such fantasy is not being bought anymore, and if only someone would publish it, then we would all be rich in hearts and pocketbooks, or something.  And yes, these people are almost always talking [...]

Man, there are so many writers and publishers I still haven’t added to this page yet. Slowly, slowly, I’m adding them.

First, I realized now that my wording of the last point made some people think that Valente’s post was a direct response to mine.  It’s not, it just made a really good counter argument to what I was saying, but had no straightforward connection to it.  Anyway.
After talking to a lot of other writers, I [...]

Catherynne M. Valente has a really well thought out, well written counterpoint to what I said earlier on the whole Prime fiasco.  Go and read it. She has me rethinking some of my points.

This one took about three days, off and on to write.  It’s different than the first one, much more experimental and cerebral, yet like the first one contain elements of plotty plotness, but rather one reshuffled and put into order through a series of meta stories.
Excerpt:
Tabi told her girls of mothermoon, distant mother dangling barebreasted [...]

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