Pretty much everyone starts out wanting to write the same way: I can do that. You know, you read something that you find wanting and you think, “how did that get published? Jeez, anybody can do that.” My particular I can do that came when I read the magazine Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine. This [...]
Remember when I told you all about Fred Stanton’s story, “The Secret History of X,” which he read at the Frugal Media event? I said that if you ever get to hear him read it, you should immediately grab that chance. Well, now you have the next best thing: It’s up at From the Asylum. [...]
(Note: I loved this segment. It got into Joe’s head and showed everything we needed to know about him, like how he relates to people, how he cares about Lynn, even what happens when he gets angry. I got to use some of my favorite Texasisms, too. But it had to go. It told us nothing [...]
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