Archive for February, 2006

Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro

The Spoken Alexandria Project has just made a podcast out of Tobias S. Buckell’s “Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro” articles, which originally appeared in Speculations.

Science fiction and fantasy author Tobias S. Buckell talks about a much-ignored period in the working writer’s career: after one makes that first major professional story sale, but before he or she has turned that exception into the rule. Buckell discusses “the benefits, the experience, and the dangers of being a Joe Blow Neopro,” along with “some strategies to move out of this stage in of our careers.”

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Souped Up vs. Suped Up

When speaking of a supercharged something, such as a supercharged engine, why is it souped up instead of suped up? The engine is not comprised of, nor does it have anything to do with soup. If you’re going to contract supercharged, it would make more sense to do so as suped. So, what’s up with that?

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