The Great Gaiman
Wouldn’t he blush to read that? But he said something that I have felt for a few months now, and he said it long before I articulated the thought. Neil Gaiman said: “Writers groups can be good and they...
View ArticleCamaraderie
I see writing as a friendship. I’m not in competition with other writers to be one of three authors an agent signs this year. I’m not firing away short stories to make a coveted magazine spot. I’m in...
View ArticleThe Writing Process Blog Tour
Thanks to Heidi Garrett , the author of the Queen of the Realm of Faerie stories starting with Nandana’s Mark and the Once Upon a Time Today Collection, for tagging me in the Writing Process Blog...
View ArticleStories Told Right, Not for Sales
or Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea is Redbull I love visual works, you may have noticed as much as I read, I’ll watch movies and read comics. I recently started an anime where the first episode began with a...
View ArticlePicasso Parable
I’m not a best seller, I’m not repped by an agent. I’m just a person learning the art of writing for an audience. People love to give advice to aspiring authors. Advice-givers are everywhere, on every...
View ArticleLearning and Growing
I’ve read a lot of “how to write” blogs in the last three years. Many of them are by people who have written a book or two that are out in the world to check out! Many of them are by people who have...
View ArticleVote for a cover
Rock Hopper is in its penultimate editing phase, which means we need to pick a cover. These are not the final versions, but are edging that direction. Which style do you prefer?
View ArticlePlanning and Plotting
I’m a planner. I have a plan b, a contingency plan and then a couple more besides. The decision tree never ends, why should the planning? I write, after all, and this planning is really plotting. There...
View ArticleTaste the Rainbow: Why I Decided to Go to Sasquan
We split ourselves, for ease and genre. What do you read? Everything, but mostly scifi. Speculative fiction doesn’t cut it. Fantasy is science fiction in the broad scheme. The writing guild is Science...
View ArticleDecision Time
Three years ago I started a novel. It turned into Rock Hopper. Half way through Rock Hopper, I wrote Olivia’s Field, but I kept returning to the Trojan War universe to write more about Rock Hopper’s...
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