Learning while driving
Feb. 20th, 2007 10:53 amI went to Boskone this weekend, had a great time with
bonniers and
slobbit, met
matociquala, attended lots of panels . . . and I'll blog about it later.
I drove from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, and to keep myself amused on the ride, I burned some podcasts to CD. It worked well; from here to
slobbit's house is just about 3 CDs worth of material. I download lots of podcasts to my computer, but since I'm usually writing or working when I'm at my computer, I don't listen to them as often as I should. This was a good chance to listen to things I'd been meaning to.
A couple of the CDs were from Escape Pod. I'd recently read Greg van Eekhout's "Tales from the City of Seams," so his "Authorwerx" (Escape Pod episode #87) went onto a CD. I also added a couple of Cory Doctorow stories and a pair of Tobias Buckell's.
I loaded one CD with "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro" (also by Tobias Buckell), available from the Spoken Alexandria Project (originally aired February of last year). I highly recommend this series of six articles for those who are trying to become neopros, too, especially his discussion of visions and milestones.
The other podcast I listened to episodes of was Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing. She has lots of good advice, and she does interviews with published authors frequently (including David Drake, Nancy Kress, and Neil Gaiman).
I still have days and days worth of podcasts I need to listen to, but as Mur says . . . I should be writing.
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A couple of the CDs were from Escape Pod. I'd recently read Greg van Eekhout's "Tales from the City of Seams," so his "Authorwerx" (Escape Pod episode #87) went onto a CD. I also added a couple of Cory Doctorow stories and a pair of Tobias Buckell's.
I loaded one CD with "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro" (also by Tobias Buckell), available from the Spoken Alexandria Project (originally aired February of last year). I highly recommend this series of six articles for those who are trying to become neopros, too, especially his discussion of visions and milestones.
The other podcast I listened to episodes of was Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing. She has lots of good advice, and she does interviews with published authors frequently (including David Drake, Nancy Kress, and Neil Gaiman).
I still have days and days worth of podcasts I need to listen to, but as Mur says . . . I should be writing.