12.13.12Our good friend Max told me he was building a flow chart of the James Corey writing process. Now, Max is a smart guy, and a guy with significant technical skills, so I was thinking this could get pretty complicated. Two writers, working from outline with multiple editing passes? That could be tough to flowchart out. The one Max sent to me is a bit simplified, and I’m not sure how often we actually make the right choice on the [...]
Archive for December 2012
Wild Cards at Tor
by Daniel Abraham
Coming soon at Tor.com, a brand new otherwise unpublished Wild Cards story with spiffy, spiffy art.
It’s Not Really Fan Art When You’re a Professional
by Daniel Abraham
First the SMBC panel. Now this. I’ll tell you, it’s been a good week.
A Brief Aside For Science
by Daniel Abraham
So I read this morning about folks who are taking what seems to me the only sane path toward strong AI: making something that does what brains do, and seeing what happens. I have a few reactions to this on the general subject of neuroscience and cognitive theories. The first is Woo hoo! I love science. I love the systematic discovery of how the universe works and what it does, and especially the counterintuitive parts where it turns out nothing [...]
The Coolest James SA Corey Thing Ever
by Daniel Abraham
Zach Weiner, one-man god of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, on me and Ty: How true, how true….