Metacentricities

Well, since it seems I can’t figure out exactly what to say on this blog, and I am happily neck deep in science fiction writing, I have a new blog, over on LiveJournal. It’s only going to be about science fiction writing, and it’s on LJ because there is a huge community of women and feminist science fiction writers there, so it’s the place to be. Kind of ironic, I never really gave LJ much thought - even though it is, really, the grandmother of social networks & blogging, all in one.

I imagine a rant or two about the election season will end up here, or some exploration of a theological or religious conundrum. But I think most of the action is on the Zen tech blog, and LJ.

Jane Rule, the well-known lesbian writer, died on Tuesday. I had the great pleasure to go to Galliano Island, where she lived, and meet her a few years ago, because a good friend of mine was a friend of hers.  Jane was wonderful to spend time with.

I had one of those interesting experiences, where you think about what your younger self would have thought if you had been able to see yourself in the future. I remember quite well going to the movie “Desert Hearts” with my girlfriend at the time, when I was a very young 26. The movie was pretty ground-breaking - a movie about lesbians with a happy ending, in 1985. The book, “Desert of the Heart” that it was based on, was itself groundbreaking - part of the first wave of lesbian literature.

She gave so much, and will be remembered well.

Ruth and I are off to Provincetown for a week. It’s part vacation, part writing retreat. I’m going to try and get further on my sequel, and also think about what I want to do with my first novel. It needs editing, still, but soon, it will be ready to go out in the world in some form.

I’ll be taking with me a lot of books on writing, and thinking about what it means to be a writer. And, I’ll be bringing with me some good sci fi reading.

I’ll have more to say about writing in the next while - it’s been on my mind a lot, and I want to grapple with the issues around writing for me, and move my writing to the next level.