I’ve got a piece on Jay Lake’s blog that is in the final 5 of his flash fiction contest following the voting of Jay’s panel of esteemed judges. I’m thrilled to have made the cut. It’s for the story After the Golden Times, although in the Jay Lake poll it’s untitled (and you can read …
I posted the other day that I subscribe to writing blogs that post link salads once a week or, in Jay Lake’s case, daily. I thought I would post the ones that I enjoy the most: Jay Lake Link Salad (Every Day) Teresa Frohock’s Lunchtime Links (Weekly) Bibliophile Stalker’s Links and Plugs (Every Day) Nathan …
I’m a pretty linear thinker. I’m also content to read books and watch movies and let the plot unfold without a whole lot of guessing about what’s going to happen. As a writer, this doesn’t serve me well. But I forge ahead anyway, looking for ways to sift through the mound of cliches clogging up …
I subscribe to a number of helpful blogs for writers and blogs by writers (Check out the blog roll to the right). I can barely keep up with all the posts, especially the link salad posts, which I love. I rely on these posts to provide a synopsis of the current goings on in the …
They say that the road ain’t no place to start a family. –Steve Perry, lead singer of Journey. The road is also no place for me to start a story. We just got back from Nags Head, NC where we visited with some old friends. I always marvel at how much I enjoy seeing those …
I just found out from Teresa Frohock at Helluo Librorum that I won a copy of The Gentling Box by Bram Stoker Award Winning author Lisa Mannetti. I’ve been intrigued by this book since I came across it on a blog review (Unfortunately I cannot remember which one). Thanks to Teresa for her interview with …
The men loved his company as much as they feared and admired and envied him. The women’s love of Jacques was more primal.
I wrapped up the first draft of my first novel three days ago. It felt good. Not great, but good. The following day, all I could think about was all the stuff that needed to be rethought, reworked and rewritten. The prospect of doing those things is daunting and exciting. I look forward to the …
The imagery of this post’s title is awful, but I like the meaning. I’ve hared off and slung a whole bunch of words down on my laptop and am close to wrapping up the first draft of my first novel. Part of me thinks I should have studied more about the craft: plot, characterization, setting, …
I hit 100,000 words on the first draft of my first novel today and feel like I’ll have things wrapped up within the next 10,000 or so. My original goal was 100k by the end of August, with the idea that I’d also have a complete story. That gives me 11 days to get to …