Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Aug 2011
A few months ago there was a meme on Facebook that I particularly liked. The core of it read: I would like my Facebook friends to comment on this status, sharing how you met me. But I want you to LIE. That’s right, just make it up. After you comment, copy this to your status, [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 04 May 2011
About a month ago, the PBS Newshour ran a segment about the 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the oldest writing MFA program in the country. At 1:16 in the above video, the segment cuts to workshop director Samantha Chang standing in an office filled with crates full of manuscripts in red folders, explaining [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Jan 2011
Remember how I wrote a haiku last week for a contest to have my name given to a character in John Scalzi’s next novel? I won. That’ll do, haiku. That’ll do.
News &Writing Eugene Fischer | 26 Dec 2010
Today NPR’s program On The Media featured a fascinating discussion with Lawrence Weschler on the topic of the inherent fictitious aspects of journalism and nonfiction. Weschler proposes a nuanced view of what constitutes truth in journalism and nonfiction, but more interesting to me is his implicit identification of the responsibilities of a reader. Weschler says [...]
Writing Eugene Fischer | 02 Mar 2010
The April/May double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, containing my story “Adrift,” is now in stores. This is what the cover looks like, complete with a list of other people I am totally stoked to be sharing a table of contents with! Look mom and dad! Finally! My name, up in ink!
Texas &Writing Eugene Fischer | 01 Mar 2010
Missions Unknown is a blog about science fiction, fantasy, and horror topics in San Antonio, run by John Picacio, Sanford Allen, and Paul Vaughn. Last week Sanford interviewed me for their regular feature, “Made in S.A.” He asked about my stories, my background with writing, Clarion, and my current interest in the Texas State Board [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Jan 2010
Rabbit Hole Day 2010 has nearly been and gone without my doing anything to recognize it. Too many distractions this year. But this seems a fine time to collect in one place the Twitter and Facebook messages I churned out a year ago today. MICROBLOGGING RABBIT HOLE DAY 2009 Jan. 26, 11:42 pm: Oh hell. [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Nov 2009
There is an interesting article on The Language Log about a particular type of misnegation that, until it was presented to me in a context that said, “this is wrong,” I was unable to see the problem with. It has to do with phrases of the type No NOUN is too ADJECTIVE to VERB. For [...]
Blog &Clarion &Fiction Eugene Fischer | 25 Sep 2009
To begin, other people’s good news: First, and long run most important, Mary Anne had a baby! Howdy, Anandan. Welcome to the world. Paul Berger sold one of his Clarion stories, “Small Burdens” to Strange Horizons. It should be showing up next year in the Spring, and it is a marvelous piece of work. Meghan [...]
Fiction Eugene Fischer | 09 Sep 2009
Keffy’s last publication was in the print magazine Sybil’s Garage, so I couldn’t link to it. But this one is online at Apex Magazine. This was another of Keffy’s Clarion stories, and has one of the best first lines that showed up that summer. It is also, as so many of his stories are, suffused [...]
