Leslie Fish
Leslie Fish just gave me permission to use some lyrics from one of her songs in the novel. Woooooot! In a hat-tip to my various...
behind the scenes
Brian left a comment: I am reminded that RAH and Virginia, for short story, used a roll of butcher paper and two days of time...
planning a novel: magic comes from hard work
In a thread about writing, Vox Day writes: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/08/rules-of-writing-ii.html Some authors love to create myths about the magic of the process, but as Glenn Frey...
snakes stats in a table
draft start finish duration words/day size 1 1 Jan ’11 24 Aug ’11 235 720 169,000 2 1 Jan ’12 3 Aug ’12 215 976...
Mysteries and unresolved questions in novels
Mysteries and unresolved questions are a part of real life, and so it’s OK for them to exist in novels. As a matter of fact,...
social niceties, backstabbing, tribalism
I’m reading a lot of indie science fiction literature on my kindle. Two things pain me. The smaller of the two: most of it is...
another perspective on five drafts, three years, and 3,000 hours of work
“If you set your bar at ‘amazing’ it’s awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn’t going to be amazing....
chapter 185: Boardroom Group meets after Darcy is rescued and Mike is missing
== 2064: Boardroom Group Headquarters in Tunnel 1,288, Aristillus, Lunar Nearside Javier looked around the dim construction area. The puddle of illumination from the a...
how long does it take to write a novel?
“___ year(s) to write a novel”...
chapter 172: Mike waits for news – has Darcy made it out of the PK prison camp?
== 2064: Northern Logistics offices, Aristillus, Lunar Nearside Mike turned the stylus over and over in his hands, occasionally pausing to tap it against the...