Over at Book Chick City I’m being featured in their series “Where Stories Are Made,” where authors get to do a mini photo-essay about the environment where they actually do their writing. So you all can get to see the (clean parts of the) office at home and at the Read more…
Writing tip: If you want to really do this, you can’t complain about lacking the time. If you lack the time, it’s only because you have placed things higher on the priority list than actually writing. Things like blogging. . . That is all.
The quiet is due to me working on Marked, the new project that (at the moment) supersedes the NaNoWriMo novel. I’m working on that one because, even though the NaNoWriMo project has more words, Marked is in a state closer to completion. This is primarily due to having written a Read more…
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us Read more…
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it comes to revision. If I didn’t ask for critiques from Read more…
Now that I’m done and I can spare a few hundred words for my blog, I’d thought I’d give a little recap on what I think this NaNoWriMo thing was good for, despite some asinine anal-retentive elitist asshat skeptics out there: First, what lessons this provides a newbie author: The Read more…
Well I did it (go me!), 50K words in a month. This is a task I’ve manged before, but never as a conscious act. Before, the few times I’ve been this productive, I’ve had a muse with a whip chasing me. This time I literally started completely cold. All I Read more…
More NaMoWriMo excerpts: “He killed her here,” she whispered. “Who? What?” “She didn’t like what he was doing, this place, what lived here. She begged him to move, to take the family away from this place. They argued, yelled, screamed. The floor was just vinyl stick on tile, old and Read more…
Plagiarism and Privilege at Making Light. Scalzi on MFA Programs and what is left untaught. (With followup.) Charlie Stross is dissatisfied with Steampunk. (Yes, I’m late to this particular party.) First thing we do, let’s kill all the writers.
More NaNoWriMo stuff. In lieu of a real blog post, an except of what I just wrote about five minutes ago: The girl at the top of the stairs was older than Kelly, four or five. Her skin was pale to the point that it looked white even in shadow. Read more…