This is a list of archived entries published in April 2006.
Interview with Jason F.C. Clarke
(As conducted by the author with himself)
Let’s start at the top. You are…?
Jason F.C. Clarke.
Right, right. And what do the initials stand for?
Frederick Cassani.
That’s a lot of names for someone who isn’t one of the landed gentry.
I guess so.
Or, like, “the third” or something.
True.
Well, anyway. Where were you born and raised?
I [...]
DG and I saw Wicked at the Boston Opera House last night. I’ve yet to read the book, but DG had, and she said the story was quite different and simplified, but true to the themes and spirit. I thought the show was excellent, and was especially impressed by the performance of Julia Murney, who [...]
Okay, so I lied. I didn’t finish “Leoht Unfaeger,” but only after realizing there were fundamental problems with the story as it stood. It was essentially a rewrite of a previous story I’d started using different characters, a technique that always fails for me. My writing style tends to be organic—the entire story comes together [...]
Well, the upgrade to Movabletype 3.2 went far smoother than last time. I sat down to do it yesterday, expecting to spend three or four hours at the computer, but I must have done something wrong before, because it took perhaps ten minutes. The result is a more efficient system and much better spam comment [...]
Lately I’ve been watching reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation on G4. Why a channel ostensibly devoted to videogames is running three hours of Star Trek each weeknight is beyond me, but I’ll take it.
Watching the show has reminded me just how much of a Star Trek fan (aka geek) I was as [...]
Okay, so I didn’t finish the story this weekend. In fact, I didn’t even work on it once from the moment I wrote the last post.
Now, you all have a job to do. In order for my shaming scheme to work, you must hit me with as much scorn and derision as you can muster. [...]
I’ve started work on my first short story in quite a while. I’m mentioning it here because I’ve read that a good way to stop procrastinating is to tell a friend what you’re doing and when you intend to finish it–the motivation being avoidance of shame and humiliation when you fail to meet your goal.
The [...]
Finished reading The Da Vinci Code this morning. It’s one of those books you read faster the closer you get to the end, until you’re skimming whole paragraphs just to get the important points of each chapter (which, by the end, were coming on the last line of each chapter like clockwork). The book felt [...]
I’ve fixed a bug in the comment system where, when you hit “Post,” the main page reloaded in the popup window. Now the window will reload just the comment listing. If you have any problems, let me know. Eventually I’ll suck it up and take the time to upgrade to MovableType 3.2–that, or pay someone [...]
So–the three of you who read my blog yesterday may have thought I was the author of yesterday’s post. Why wouldn’t you? That would be a reasonable assumption, since after all, this is my blog, and you have not had any past experience to suggest that anyone other than me would be writing it. But [...]