A slowly accreting list of essays and interviews. Notes on my writing philosophy, how various stories came to be, some of the joys and difficulties of being a writer, and so on.

• A growing list of entries on my blog, Pushing a Snake Up a Hill. (Click that link to see the whole blog.) Here's a sampling of entries:
  • Sunborn Pub Date—at Last!
  • Writing Media and Other Tie-In Novels
  • Great Book on Writing
  • A Few Thousand Science Fiction Covers
  • WriteSF.com is Live!
  • Which Book, Which Book?
  • Writing Question #8: When to Rewrite?
  • Writing Question #6: What's It Like to Write a Movie Novelization?
  • They'rre Gonna Put Me in the Moviiiies!
  • Revenge of the Sith
  • Teaching Scientific Thinking
  • Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Classroom
  • Questions about Writing #5: Personal Perspective
  • What's in a Title? (Writing Question #4)
  • Writing Question #3: Will They Steal Your Work?
  • Thoughts on Faith and Rationality
  • What's Wrestling Got to Do with Writing, Anyway? (Writing Question #2)
  • Sunborn--What Took So Freakin' Long?
  • Sunborn First Draft Finished!
  • Vanity Press Sting
  • Questions on Writing #1
  • Methane Lakes! Four-Pod Lives!
  • Titan! SF and Reality
• Dealing with writer's block
• How you can help an author
• On Faith and the Difficulty of Writing -- from the viewpoint of a robot who's watched the author struggle
• Writing and Publishing Lead Times -- a few words on why it takes so long to get new books into print
• "Of Consoles and Dragons' Claws" -- notes on the writing of my novels
• "Media in Transition" panel at MIT where I was privileged to compare notes on writing with the late Hal Clement
• Advice to aspiring writers
• Reflections on attending a con
• What about those cover blurbs?
• My recommended reading list
• Your recommended reading list
• Online interview with me, conducted by Cybercon Chicago.