worldbuilding: it's what's for breakfast

note to all writers and would-be writers:

If you let a character describe something as "demonic?" Make sure that the culture you're writing in has demons, first (or has had contact with a culture that has demons).

In fact, make sure that every reference your characters use is culturally suppported. Yes, it's a pain in the ass, and takes time. But the editor will find them and point them out and make you go back and fix them anyway, so why not do it right the first time?

On behalf of all editors, thank you.

o hai. I can haz caffeine?

I have decided that cyberlife as depicted by Gibson et al will be really annoying to the rest of us, at least evidenced by the guy on the 1 train with me this afternoon, moving his hands like he was navigating cyberspace -- and really pissing off the people next to him, whose realspace he was invading.

Anyway. Work has ambushed me, with (as per e-mail from Madame Editrix) Anna Leonard's copyedit on its way to me as well. Wheeee. If you've posted recently, I haven't read it. If you've e-mailed me, I haven't gotten to it. If you've shown up on my doorstep, the sheets and towels are in the linen closet, please feed the cats.

I'll be back later.