Writing

Fiction - Poetry - Academic

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." -- Robert Heinlein

Uncle Bobby's advice to the contrary, I've been writing almost as long as I've known how to put one word after another on paper. Sometimes, people even pay me for it.

The pieces on the following pages are all copyrighted, but they are also all free for use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In plain English, this means that you're free to do anything you like with them — email them to other people, read them in public, turn them into movies, write spinoffs of them, use them in visual art, whatever — without having to ask me first, as long as you:

  • Give me credit for whatever I did,
  • Don't make any money off it,
  • Distribute your derivative work under the same terms, and
  • Talk to me first if you want to break any of the above three rules. We can work something out.

Of course, if you do use one of these pieces for something, I'd enjoy hearing about it. Please feel free to drop me a line.

Pieces not hosted on this site -- that is to say, the academic papers -- are the property of other copyright holders, typically the conference that published them, and thus not licensed under Creative Commons. Sorry about that.