praise
My college friend Kelly really lifted my spirits today by sending an email which included this bit: Wow – your draft 3 already looks really...
the heart of the story
Writing friend Diana Day told me that one of the important – but latent – threads in my novel was the romance thread between Mike...
Wherein Samuel R Delany and I chat over coffee
Well, not really. But over the past week: I suggested to Rahul Kanakia an idea for a blog post. He wrote it…and it resulted in...
The Gods of Ordinary Things [ guest post by Jennifer Bresnick ]
Travis here. I read a few science fiction and fantasy writer’s blogs. As I mentioned a few days ago, most of them suck. Jennifer Bresnick’s...
Five questions for each character
Whew! I’ve been working on this for hours this morning, and finally have a first pass. A few five-question interviews from some of my characters...
Eight writing manuals that are not an absolute waste of time
There are a lot of writer’s blogs out there. Most of them are a complete waste of time. I’m a fan of Rahul Kanakia’s blog....
character arcs
I’m starting draft 4. The goals of this draft: all major characters to have interesting character development arcs all characters to behave in ways that...
pulp cover #3
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pulp cover #2
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get to know your author
I recently stumbled over the Proust Questionnaire and thought it might provide an interesting way to do an author interview. Your favorite virtue – honesty....