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 ›
Writing
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 ›
FenCon Wrap-Up (Actually, this is all about me…)
So, I’m not the best FenCon reporter. I was mainly there for the writing stuff. I’m pretty new to the con scene, despite having been active in geeky counter-culture stuff for decades. I’ve always had this “anti-fanboy” gene for some reason. There… Read More ›
FenCon Update
Back from my first day at FenCon. Yeah, had to end things early due to other obligations, and honestly, there wasn’t a whole lot of great programming today. My main reason for being there is the Writer’s Workshop lectures with… 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 ›
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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