Monthly Archives: September 2016

This past week I missed what was probably my last chance this year for a week of bike commuting, because I spent much of it traveling instead — and, as I found out from the bike shop when I got … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-09-25 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Travels

Quote of the day

Posted on 2016-09-17 by Garrett Wollman

(A teacher in a sorcery school is giving an impromptu lecture:) “Each of you may live a long time; each of you is of significant strength. You could do good, if you could judge all the consequences of what you … Continue reading →

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Advice for fantasy writers, from a reader (Originally published as a sequence of tweets in slightly different form.) Let the story go where it needs to go. Don’t fill in too much of the background. Remember that, if you’re successful, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-09-16 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Advice for fantasy writers

Peanut-butter cookies

Posted on 2016-09-06 by Garrett Wollman

This weekend I made peanut-butter cookies for the first time in years, probably decades. These were big peanut-butter cookies, over two inches in diameter, definitely one per serving, from Joanne Chang’s Flour (Chronicle Books, 2010; p. 114), so they’re not really … Continue reading →

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Recipe super-quick take: Joanne Chang’s Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Posted on 2016-09-04 by Garrett Wollman

So, pretty much every bakery has to have an oatmeal-raisin cookie formula, for catering orders if nothing else. And Joanne Chang’s recipe from Flour (Chronicle Books, 2010; p. 112) is not all that much different from the one you might find … Continue reading →

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I first became aware of Graydon Saunders many years ago, through the intercession of (or perhaps collaboration with) Welsh-Canadian fantasy writer Jo Walton. While it was as a poet that I knew him, he apparently works in IT (specifically document-processing … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-09-04 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on Go buy these books