March 18th 2010
Writing, Grief, and Stress
You can only do as much as you can do, and there’s no point beating yourself up over the fact.
Two years ago yesterday my grandmother died. She was a wonderful woman and the person most responsible for me making it through to adulthood relatively intact. For reasons I’m not going to go into here, my […]
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March 17th 2010
And So It Goes
Have you ever noticed how when the shit of your life hits the fan, that everything else in the world keeps going? Other people’s lives don’t stop and drop everything because yours does? I’m reminded of this now, as the my proverbial fan whirls. As I write this, I’m getting ready for an unexpected surgery […]
March 16th 2010
First Girl Ever
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a girl who wanted to be a knight. (Or a wizard, or whatever.) But girls weren’t allowed to be knights, so she disguised herself as a boy (or strongarmed the king into letting her try, or whatever), and after many difficult challenges, she […]
March 15th 2010
Write What You Don’t Know
I’m being a bit disingenuous. Some of what you write has to be what you know. Compelling characters are difficult to write without at least some life experience. I would argue, however, that what you know should be the internal story, not the plot. Or the setting, either.
For most of the twentieth century write what-you-know has […]
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, […]
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
- addendum - kris@kristine-smith.com
- BFA Award Longlist and Facebook Silliness
- *argh* - kris@kristine-smith.com
- From Twitter 03-19-2010 - kris@kristine-smith.com
- The only time I'll sit next to Stephen Fry - info@glendalarke.com (Glenda Larke)
- The Room And The Will - Lili
- The week that was - kris@kristine-smith.com
- HUNGER cover - Jackie
- I REALLY need a con icon...
- What She Said - noreply@blogger.com (tate hallaway)
- Awash in the Weird - Jeff VanderMeer
- Woof, woof, meow. - mindy@mindyklasky.com
- The Weekend!
- BFS awards longlist - aliette
- From Twitter 03-18-2010 - kris@kristine-smith.com
- writing, books and reading - info@glendalarke.com (Glenda Larke)
- I go a-walkin' - gregvan@gmail.com
- Just because I'm a tree-hugger...
- Haircut 2010! - Jenn Reese
- Some good news - kris@kristine-smith.com
- What?s going on in Toby-land? - Tobias Buckell
- Craziness, chocolate, and a free Kat sample
- Most of us are headed for the future - Tobias Buckell
Member's Writings
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