March 5th 2010
Are you enjoying the journey?
Depending on what writing bible you follow, there are only 3 real plots in the universe - or 12, or 37, or ONE. It doesn’t matter what the number is, so long as you realize that the basic idea is distilling EVERY book into its constituent parts
If you do that to a ridiculous degree, […]
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March 1st 2010
Cleansing the Palate
Last week, I finished a proposal for a new book, and I sent it off to its prospective editor.
Last week, I picked up my work-in-progress, BITE AFTER BITE, and I wrote a few thousand words in a new chapter.
Those two sentences were very easy to type, but they don’t begin to capture the true nature […]
February 24th 2010
Writing Terms Defined
Agent - Reviews the contracts to eliminate unfavorable clauses and protect the author’s interests, allowing the author to relax and enjoy the experience of being published. In the relationship model of publishing, the agent is the condom.*
Censorship - The suppression of speech, generally by the government or others with authority. China’s ongoing efforts to arrest and silence those who […]
February 23rd 2010
How I Know I’m a Writer
Sometimes posts are easier to write than others. There are times when a subject for a post presents itself with such force that it really does — pardon the cliché — write itself.
And then there are days like today.
It’s rainy and cold outside, I have some very nice jazz on the stereo (Brian Bromberg’s […]
February 16th 2010
Emasculation not required
It used to be that women in stories were incompetent. Their only jobs were to a) look pretty and b) make the hero look good. (Even the villainesses.) They got in trouble so the hero could rescue them; they asked dumb questions so the hero could demonstrate his knowledge; they stood around spectating […]
What our authors are saying
Our members also have personal blogs. Here is what they are saying on their own websites lately:
- Error reading source feed. - FeedJumbler
- From Twitter 03-11-2010 - kris@kristine-smith.com
- Malaysians: what you should be doing this weekend - info@glendalarke.com (Glenda Larke)
- and the update
- A day - kris@kristine-smith.com
- And there you have it -
- Some linkage? - aliette
- more pictures
- Hivemind query - aliette
- Who Goes There?, The Thing, and Beyond - Jeff VanderMeer
- and lo, the news is ungood
- Librarypunk - tim@tropismpress.com
- Nisi Shawl on Avatar - Jeff VanderMeer
- Why Do You Hate Verbs, Artist?* - noreply@blogger.com (tate hallaway)
- To ital or not to ital - rolanni@livejournal.com
- Strong Women Characters
- The Periodic Table of Fiction
- Our New Member--Chaz Benchley
- Quick Updatery - rolanni@livejournal.com
- Bad Week, Cheer-Ups
- From Twitter 03-10-2010 - kris@kristine-smith.com
- Impending website redesign
- Another music melange...
- there has to be something else to talk about
Member's Writings
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