So, I started playing around with Pinterest. If you aren’t familiar with Pinterest, here’s the official blurb: Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their...
My Novel I talk about ‘my novel’ a lot. Really, there’s more than one. The first, well, second if we’re going by what was written in what order, is my contribution to Epic or High Fantasy. It is nowhere near ready for...
There is one thing above all others that I find difficult to do when writing: name things. When it comes to names for people, for places (fictitious places, obviously), my mind really does go blank. I will start to develop a character in my head...
Man, being sick really put me behind the eight ball (old saying. Look it up.) I am behind on several projects, not the least of which is some posts I promised Sf Signal. I’ve got a couple nights of podcasting to do this week before I can...
A little while ago, I put up a post titled ‘I’d like to blog for you’. The concept was simple – I’d write a blog post for your blog, based on a subject or topic of your choosing, and vice versa. The first person to...
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors. Hopefully you will find this as insightful and illuminating as I have. Here it is: Write. Thanks for stopping...
I remember the first time I saw the word ‘apoplectic’ and wondering, what in the name of heaven is that?! What does it mean? Where did it come from?! I was intrigued. I saw it again, years later, in the Robert Jordan ‘Wheel of...
One of the possibly dumbest things I do is carry my writing with me on a little USB drive. It occurred to me just last night that I haven’t backed it up to anything in a very long time and it’s very rare that I ever print anything out...
In tenth grade, college prep English, we did a lot of creative writing. We also did a lot of reading. None of the reading was genre stuff – no fantasy or scifi. It was mostly ‘literature’, which is fine, but I’ve always...
I can’t imagine not having music going when I’m writing. Occasionally, I’ll have something else going; like a DvD movie or something, but for the most part, it has to be music for me. My tastes are more diverse then I probably...
As I look back on my weekend that was intended to be a writing marathon push to complete my novel tentatively titled ‘Sam Kane: A Novel of the New Universe’, I wonder where I went wrong. At the same time, I know where I went wrong...
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