Sara Ryan

my revisions. ::blinking, rubbing eyes:: So I am giving myself a little while to consume cultural products before starting to produce again. Tonight, f’rinstance, I think I will take a tip from quirkybird and see Mary Gauthier.

Lots of people are writing about this horrible news. Here’s a piece I haven’t seen linked yet. A Science Fiction Writer Shares Her View of Intolerance.

These photos make me crack up.

Who’d have thought that nasty vapo-rub stuff actually worked? And because I’m still not at 100 percent, some memes. “Things I Can Be Bribed With” I can only think of three: 1. Lush products 2. A cure for this crud 3. Unreleased episodes of The Wire Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Homemade gingerbread [...]

I am still sick and incapable of comprehensible speech. (Seriously. I called my parents today and my own mother did not recognize my voice.) So I figured that today would be a good time to answer a great question I got in email: how do you become comfortable with reading in public? The best way [...]

when you carefully set aside an entire three-day weekend to work on the book? Yes, that’s right. You get sick.

The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has “dumped” another. The project’s graphical tools reveal [...]

Here is a Valentine for you, my Internet friends. Enjoy whatever you’re doing today.

…what it was like at this stage, working on Empress. There was a point when I realized that I had to go through the manuscript and actually figure out exactly when everything happened, make a list of all the scenes, and link them to a sequence of calendar dates. I used an 8 1/2 x [...]

How come when you answer one narrative question, two more always arise? And why can’t I keep track of what the hell day it is in my book? I think I need an icon for revisions-related crankiness.