Writing lessons and the writing life
I took the week off from work to write and I have to say, it was hugely (okay, not hugely, say moderately successful.
As most writers know, the day job is essential for incidentials such as keeping a roof over one’s head, food on the table, things like that. However, I personally find that the less [...]
Let’s say your work in progress has a lot going on. Lots of episodes, lots of scenes, a complex plot, many characters. Things happen. Your character goes places. More things happen.
How do you put it all together?
A novel isn’t just a a bunch of stuff happening over several pages. As a writer you have to [...]
So if you go out to SCARE for the CURE Haunted House tonight, come by and say hi. I am going to be there signing books. I will have copies of Gordath Wood and Red Gold Bridge, and ALL proceeds are going toward SCARE.
I’m also selling copies at a special discounted price for Haunted House [...]
Forget Stephen King’s On Writing. His best book on writing might be Misery.
My son has become a Stephen King fan and he just checked out Misery from the school library. I picked it up after he finished and raced through it. I first read it years ago. Still vivid, still as heart-stopping scary as I [...]
November is coming and that means NanoWriMo is closing in fast. If you are interested in writing a novel and have never tried, you probably think NaNoWriMo is just the ticket to give you the jumpstart you need.
Don’t do it.
Writing requires steady, consistent effort. Blasting through a novel at over 1000 words a day means [...]
(sorry, Dear Reader: WordPress was down for a bit, hence the delay in posting):
I don’t write alpha males. I don’t like them. Pushy, overbearing jerks, most of them. Well, I should say, I do write alphas, they just aren’t my heroes. Lord Tharp is an alpha male, and what did he do? He was such [...]
Charles Stross writes them. So does Taylor Anderson. Eric Flint’s 1632 is all about portals! So why are portal stories so bad?
When I was shopping Gordath Wood, I heard from a couple of agents that the “portal” novel was overdone. Joshua Bilmes and Kristen Nelson both said that the portal, in which a protagonist from [...]
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