I firmly believe that professional writers have a duty to pay forward the help they received to get where they are. I have achieved what I did because professionals volunteered […]
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REAL MEN: A Bad Movie I’ve Watched Many, Many, MANY Times
Real Men There’s a strange nether-zone of fame where one is famous enough that you are a household name, but not famous enough that you can open movies based on […]
Read moreMyths to believe in
On the whole, I’m a rational sort. I believe in a world of what can be engaged with one’s senses, what can be proven. I’m not much of a spiritualist or […]
Read moreBEASTMASTER: A Bad Movie I’ve Watched Many, Many, MANY Times
So a few years back I wrote a column for a group blog that really didn’t end up taking off– it was largely only read by the people doing it […]
Read moreSpring Fiction and Writing on the Air
I’ve been instructed to write a “spring themed flash fiction” for today’s SFFSeven, and as we all know, flash fiction is my bane. However, instead, I dug up a long […]
Read moreCover for THE IMPOSTERS OF AVENTIL
The cover for The Imposters of Aventil has been revealed: The third installment of Veranix Calbert’s saga puts him in the crosshairs of our favorite inspectors from the Maradaine Constabulary, Minox […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: The Process of Planning
I’ve made no secret of the fact that there is a Big, Crazy Plan to all of the Maradaine books. I don’t get too specific about it, as I don’t like […]
Read moreKaboom Time
So, I think I gave my creative-brain a good reboot, because now it’s in Kaboom Mode. What’s Kaboom Mode? It’s when my head is just EXPLODING because it wants to […]
Read moreResolution and Denouement: Sticking the Landing
In my Twelve Part Outline Structure, the final part is “resolution”, in which the plot elements are, you know, resolved in a satisfying way. That usually involves some form of your […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Keeping it all straight
A question I get asked a lot is, with three different series (and a fourth or more in the works), how do I possibly keep everything straight. And the answer […]
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