NaNoWriMo update (If the blog seems slow,well something had to give.) I’m pounding away at my YA ghost story, and as the blog title suggests, it’s taken a bit of a Lovecraftian turn. It probably won’t be an explicit Mythos story, but there’s clearly some eldritch horrors hanging about.
I’m more or less on track with my NaNoWriMo project, and I have registered myself and my project on the NaNoWriMo site. It’s probably a little more accurate than the counter I have here, since I get to see pretty graphs and such. Also, I is motivated since winning will Read more…
I’ve taken the plunge. Being without an outstanding contract for the first time in 17 years means this is the first November since the inception of NaNoWriMo that I have the time to try and participate. So, now that I have the Marked proposal over on my agent’s desk, I’ve Read more…
So I took the 20K word fragment I’m trying to resurrect into a book proposal and ran it through the hamsters. The consensus was that what I had worked, which is a good thing since I wrote it over 10 years ago. However, everyone had the same problem, which is Read more…
I have been mind-melded again over at SF Signal, and the theme this time is memorable anti-heroes in S/SF: Here are three of the most memorable anti-heroes in written SF/F, at least the three that come most readily to my mind when the question comes up. First is Slippery Jim Read more…
In the annals of book promotion, this has got to be up there with the all time bad ideas. A paperback book was hurled towards President Obama seconds after he completed a Democratic rally in Philadelphia on Sunday, but aides say the incident in no way affected the event. […] Read more…
So Scalzi opines on Atlas Shrugged (which I’m currently reading for the first time, via a 64-hour long audiobook. If you’re curious, the book that filled the Atlas Shrugged slot in my teenage-reader political awakening was the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Yeah, I’m weird that way.) and while I don’t have a Read more…
A piece of writing advice I rarely hear, but one that seems appropriate to our digital age, is to never throw any of your work away. Everything you write, finished or unfinished, even the trunk novel that will never see the light of day, is potential material for a future Read more…
Over at Mighty God-King we have a critique of the new series, The Event. Now, I haven’t seen the show, and from what I’ve been reading about it, I don’t have any desire to, but MGK’s post brings up some very good points that are not just applicable to series Read more…