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Is it wrong?
Is it wrong to be slightly envious of my fiction for being better travelled than me? I've never been sad about a story going to New Jersey instead of me, but I'm about to send a story to England. I've been to England, but it was in the late 1970s and I was a preteen....
Vanity publishing, rejection, and other gibberings.
Teresa Nielson Hayden has a blog entry about a guy selling his unfinished manuscript on ebay. He includes a letter from a "legit company" offering to publish his novel for only $700. I have no idea if this guy can write or not, but I hope he listens to the people on...
Break it! Break it!
So, Grandfather Paradox is currently at 1500 words. I think this is a bit short, and I think it's short because I'm not breaking things enough. Things need to be broken in order to have things to fix during the course of the story. So, clearly I need to break more...
You know what helps when I’m stuck?
Analyzing structure. It's not something that tends to occur to me often. I'm more of a sleep-on-it, wake-up-drooling-into-my-pillow-with-the-answer kind of writer. There's a part of my brain that I seem to access most easily if I'm not completely conscious that seems...
short fiction paradox
One of my stories in progress has just gone in a totally unexpected direction. Which is when the good stuff happens, in my opinion. I wouldn't go so far as to say that there's no point in writing if I know how the story is going to end, but a large part of the...
Happy birthday, Freddie!
Happy birthday to the lovely, delightful Freddie Baer: a talented artist, a sweet and wonderful person, and one of the few people I would be happy to lose Alice in Jungleland to at auction. 😀 Happy birthday, Freddie! You rock!
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.