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 new blog, Pushing a Snake Up a Hill
  Here's a sampling:
  • 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
• Radio interview on AARP Radio web site. Taped in the days following the Columbia accident. (But don't believe the intro that says I've been writing for 50 years! Unless you count my scribbling on the walls as a preschooler... )
• Online interview with me, conducted by Cybercon Chicago.