Every writer has their blind spots. Weak points in their writing born from their style, their biases, their personal preferences. For me, I know exactly what my big one is: […]
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Sitting at the Grown-up Table
Two weeks from tomorrow ArmadilloCon kicks off*, starting with the Writers’ Workshop. I’m really excited. This is my second year on the teachers’ side of things for the Workshop, and […]
Read moreWriting with Clarity: Harder than it looks
The other day I read an article about the difference between “literary” fiction and “commercial” fiction. The main gist of it was how there was a school of thought– from […]
Read moreFiling off the serial numbers
There’s been plenty of conversation about Fifty Shades of Grey, the mega-selling book that had its origins in Twilight fanfic. Now, I’m not going to knock on Fifty Shades here. […]
Read moreFear is the Mindkiller, Fear is the Liberator
Fear has a powerful ability to cease up the creative mind. Not only in doing our work itself, but what we do with it after it’s finished– or as finished […]
Read moreIntention and Interpretation
I’ve been watching Girls on HBO of late*, and it’s a solid, interesting show. It’s had a lot of firestorm surrounding it, but that’s not what I’m going to talk […]
Read moreExcerpts and Workshops
It’s been a busy week on this end, so this post will mostly be links. First, I’ve updated the Works page on my homepage. I updated the samples of Thorn […]
Read morePotential and Expectations and Ridley Scott
“You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.” -Star Trek, Next Generation, as said to Wesley Crusher. Prometheus opened this weekend– which, […]
Read moreHitting Beloved Characters with Rocks
“My job is to chase him up a tree and throw rocks at him.” -J. Michael Straczynski, on writing Amazing Spider-man John Scalzi’s Redshirts came out this week, and I […]
Read moreAdding just a hint of mustard
Seven years ago, when I first participated in the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop (two more weeks until the sign-up deadline!), I brought the first chapter of an early draft of the […]
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