Thrill-seekers turn to designer kidnapping
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/3362369/Thrill-seekers-turn-to-designer-kidnapping

Adolfo Farsari – The Man Who Shot Old Japan
http://quazen.com/arts/photography/adolfo-farsari-the-man-who-shot-old-japan/

Flushing Your Troubles Away
http://in.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=48711129&newsChannel=lifestyleMolt

For Love Of Do-Good Vampires: A Bloody Book List
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123115545&ps=cprs

Are Creative Writing Courses Just For People That Want to Teach Creative Writing?
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-novel-idea-turns-creative-writing-into-an-academic-racket-20100226-p914.html

Someone who had a bad day at work and no doubt remembered it for a long time.
Pilot who dismissed Pearl Harbor radar bogeys dies at 96
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100227a4.html

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/22/distraction-free-writing/

The Mathematical Fiction web site is an interesting sith with reviews and lists of fiction that uses mathematical concepts.

Not surprisingly there are a lot of references to Greg Egan and Ted Chiang stories.

My own Reading By Numbers story has an entry now.

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf880

I’m pretty lucky in terms of how much time I could potentially devote to my writing.  I work four days a week, I’m single and I don’t have kids.  So I don’t have the demands on my time that a lot of other writers do.  But I still struggle to make the time to write.  In my case, it’s a question of getting distracted, especially by the Internet.

My fellow Clarion Souther, Ben, has more serious demands on his time.  It’s a lot harder to make the time when you have to young children.  But he’s still managed to almost finish a new novel.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/08/diffused-intensity/

The Long Write now has a LiveJournal syndicated feed, so feel free to add it to your LiveJournal watch/friend list.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/thelongwrite/

My story Reading By Numbers won third place in the Fantasy Magazine reader poll.

I really enjoyed the story that won first place – Jessica Lee’s Superhero Girl.  It’s her first published story.

The Winners of the Best Fantasy Story of 2009 Poll and Contest
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/02/the-winners-of-the-best-fantasy-story-of-2009-poll-and-contest/