I have a tough scene to write, and it’s coming hard. That’s why my fingers betrayed me and I’m over here in the blog compose screen, instead of crafting intense, deathless prose. Sitting here at the table in the RV, I’m watching the snowflakes come down. The towering peaks are lost in the white out,… Continue reading In the Moment
Tag: science fiction
The Joy of Creation
My wife said my last blog post ‘reeked of depression’. Well, I can’t deny that the state of the individual programmer isn’t a little depressing, but it hasn’t overwhelmed me with depression. For one thing, programming has become such a small part of my life. I’m a writer now. And the joys of writing are… Continue reading The Joy of Creation
Forget It! – ROM – August 1977
I was 27, living in a mobile home in south Austin, when I received a phone call out of the blue. Erik Sandberg-Diment was starting a new computer magazine and had read my article on personal computers in the April issue of Byte magazine and wondered if I would write a science fiction story for… Continue reading Forget It! – ROM – August 1977