I like to remind people that getting to the point where I am, with two novels coming out next year with a major publisher, was a journey. Before I even […]
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Path to Publication, Part VI: Structure and Plan
It’s taken this long to get past the “flailing around and talking about writing something and actually writing” phase of things. But even though I had gotten through the darkest […]
Read morePath to Publication, Part V: Crash and Epiphany
By 2007, I had attended the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop twice. I have my “finished” novel The Fifty Year War, and a handful of fits and starts, including Crown of Druthal, […]
Read morePath to Publication, Part IV: Further Flailing And False Starts
All right, so, NaNo 2003 proved one thing: I can finish a novel, right? So I’m all set and can just charge forth with this novel-writing thing. Right? Yeah, not […]
Read morePath to Publication, Part II: Early Days Of Writing Garbage
So, way back in 2000, I was talking a certain amount of talk about the idea of writing novels, and had a number of little snippets of stories. Fits and […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Fanfic of Yourself
I was thinking about one of my trunked projects, Crown of Druthal, as well as the process of novel midwifery that has brought Banshee to the point where it is […]
Read moreWorldbuilding/Perils of the Writer: One-Story Worlds vs. Many-Story Worlds
There are pretty much two ways a sf/fantasy writer can go about writing and worldbuilding: come up with a story, and build a world for it to be in; or […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Importance of the Trunk Novel, and Recognizing it for What It Is.
I know a lot of people, if the reviews on Amazon are to be taken as a valuable sample, found David Eddings’s The Rivan Codex a waste of time, but […]
Read moreThe Long Journey of the Writer
My thirties are coming to a close, officially this Sunday. So, needless to say, I’m getting a little introspective. But when I think about what my thirties were to me, […]
Read moreHoliday Special Worldbuilding: Religious Texts
Given that it’s Christmas eve, I’m not devoting a lot of time to today’s blog. I’m sure you understand. But I was thinking about religious texts, and how they inform […]
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