Literary Fiction is not my world. And on some level, it totally boggles me. Case in point, this weekend I just heard about the book The Goldfinch by Donna Tarrt, […]
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Perils of the Writer: Establishing the Stakes
This past weekend I watched the five pilots that Amazon put up to gauge customer interest. It’s an interestingly democratic way to do the pilot process: bring the pilots to […]
Read moreMetrics of Success
I’m in the early stages of my writing career where the measure of “success” can be marked with easily notable milestones. The big ones along the path still stand out. […]
Read moreIn Which I Become A Word-Whore; Or, Who is Marshall Ryan Maresca Character Anyway?
So, as of today, I’ve been added to the Word Whores blog, joining Jeffe Kennedy, James Moore, K.A. Krantz, Linda Robertson, Marcella Burnard and Veronica Scott. I’ll be appearing as […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
As an old school D&D person, one of the things I loved about the old Monster Manual was that it wasn’t just a listing of monsters and their combat stats. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Pure Bottom-Up Worldbuilding
Since I’m in the process of editing my draft of Thorn II and working on the rough of Murder of Mages II, I clearly don’t have enough on my plate. […]
Read moreHow I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Editing
During ArmadilloCon I had the pleasure of talking with a woman who was in the enviable-but-frustrating position of having an agent, but her manuscripts were still being reviewed by publishers. […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Long Upward Struggle
Tomorrow morning is the Workshop, and my whole weekend is ArmadilloCon (my schedule) so I don’t have too much time to write here today. But I wanted to talk a […]
Read moreEdits and Research and Maps, Oh my!
This blog has, unfortunately for the moment, devolved a bit into “Stuff is happening and I’m busy!” Today is no exception to that. In part because I’m finalizing the edits […]
Read moreBrevity
I was commissioned to write two one-minute plays. That requires word economy.Hint Fiction also required maximum value from each word. Very different writing muscles from novels, but useful ones to […]
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