Ahhhh, editors. Writers, love to hate on them when the rejections come in. If you’re like me, you also like to secretly pass judgment on their selections. Your inner critic flicks on the hyper-drive and reading those stories that were… Read More ›
Articles
A miscellany of random thoughts, geekery, reviews and other mysterious stuff careening around my addled brain.
Alliance Airshow 2012
A photography update tonight: back from a chilly day at the airshow with a few pictures! Check ’em out! The Canadian Snowbirds must have brought the weather. They did some excellent large formations, but honestly, the F-18 that followed their… Read More ›
Word Count Frenzy
I had this great blog post idea about word count. (Ok, so it isn’t that great or original, but it was something my fellow writers might have found interesting.) The focus was a link I have since lost. In fact, I spent… Read More ›
Wrestling the Muse
You hit me once, I hit you back I gave a kick, you gave a slap You smashed a plate over my head Then I set fire to our bed Florence+The Machine – Kiss with a Fist I’m not in… Read More ›
Remember
It’s hard to believe it’s been eleven years. Checking my Twitter feed, one of my fellow North Branch Crit Group writers posted the following: Kelsey Macke@KelsNotChels 11 years ago the towers fell, as did our jaws… and our tears. My song was my gift…. Read More ›
Writers be Brave!
I’m currently working on the beginning of my novel – going back over the first draft (only maybe half way through the whole thing ATM) to maybe polish it a tad before I submit to the FenCon Writer’s Workshop. I’m stoked… Read More ›
Knowing What You are Pretending
Writing fiction is liberating. If you head off into the far corners of sci-fi and fantasy, anything is fair game. Want a mystery about post-mortem consciousness and communication? How about something that fuses pokemon with Roman legions? Or maybe you prefer… Read More ›
What if I Travelled Forward in Time to Post this and it was actually the First Post in this Series?
Back to time travel and how not to wreck your story (or sound like an idiot – see the title above) if you decide to use it in your writing. So, if your name is H.G. Wells and you are writing about… Read More ›
The Paradox of Writing about Paradoxes
For those of you who know me, it is no secret that I hate Time Travel as a plot device. I think it was possibly Star Trek (something I don’t generally hate) that drove me to that particular cliff and… Read More ›
Table Top Plots
Surf on over to You Tube and check out Wil Wheaton’s webcast called “Table Top”. He has an excellent episode about an RPG rules-light game called Fiasco. And yes, that’s a writer or two at his table (John Rogers, the screenwriter for… Read More ›
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