Saturday, February 03, 2007

Runaway characters

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So what do you do when a character runs away with a story? You let him. Lots of people ask me where and how do I come up with my characters....

Insufficient Mating Material

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I apologize for our silence since Thursday. Blogger forced us to change to new accounts, and I --at least-- have had some difficulty with t...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

technology

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The other day my daughter was teasing me because I couldn't get my blog to upload a picture. She siad I should have lived a hundred yea...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

How to play the Fiction Delivery System

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Folks: Cindy Holby wrote in her Saturday Jan 27th post here: I write very strong characters. Characters that seem to make an impact on my fa...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Speculative and Romantic

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I was toying with the idea of building on Linnea's and Jacqueline's previous posts about genre, with particular emphasis on comedy ...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Craft Of Writing

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The Craft of Writing Some fans of our blog has asked if we would address some craft issues. And since I have just finished a book I voluntee...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Spiders, Rats, and Bridging Differences

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Recently I saw the new live movie of CHARLOTTE'S WEB, one of my favorite books. I can't say it's either better or worse than the...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

So which Genre is not even a Genre?

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Linnea Sinclair has raised an important point with regard to Genre. She wrote yesterday : ------------ My answer is, why should it be just ...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

My Genre-tini: A dash of adventure, a drop of romance, a shot of mystery, shaken not stirred…

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I hope you all paid attention to Jacqueline’s blog last week on how genres came about and how they function in the book industry. Because if...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Thusness (and the importance of a jolly good ending)

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I don't see "Thusness" being talked about very much. One of my English professors at Homerton College, Cambridge, taught me th...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Predicting the Near Future

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I've been thinking a little more about predicting the future of society and technology, in between reading bills, etc., for the Maryland...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Genre: The Beginning

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Folks: I'll begin this discussion/explanation of genre and how a writer can use it and what a reader can do with an understanding of it ...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Talk to me, my darlings...

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First a bit of BSP but with a purpose. I'm teaching some on-line writing workshops in the next two months and, as a number of you have e...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Time Wasting, The Twin Paradox (and SFWA and MySpace)

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I need to start with this humble caveat: I got a B grade in Biology Ordinary Level examinations --which was a pretty good grade in my day--,...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Does Human Nature Exist?

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Thinking about prediction last week reminded me of Isaac Asimov's robot novel THE NAKED SUN. In this book, human detective Elijah and hi...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Request for a discussion of genre

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Folks: I was asked to discuss genres -- how a writer would decide which genre to write a particular idea in -- how a reader can figure out f...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Writing Real Life

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One of the fun things about writing fiction is you get to make shit up. One of the funner things about writing science fiction and fantasy/r...
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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Grandmothers and Insufficient Mating Material

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It wouldn't be true to say that I cannot imagine a world without grandmothers. I can. However, a world without grandmothers doesn't ...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Hazards of Predicting the Future

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There's an essay by author Micheal Crichton called "Aliens Cause Global Warming" at: http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/s...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Susan Kearney's-- ISLAND HEAT-- book trailer

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Oh, my! My baby is finally finished. The book? No, actually that was completed almost one year ago. My newest project a book trailer wa...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Sea Changes in Publishing

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Folks: Just when you thought your Fiction Delivery system had finally stabilized! Posted December 29, 2006; see full article at: http://www...
Monday, January 01, 2007

When Technology Fails... (BTDT)

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Some of you may have noticed my absence from the blog the twice in December. It was not, I assure you, planned but rather an issue of circum...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Year's Eve - Time... ticking away

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Timing-wise, I really lucked out this year, if having (alien romance) blogging rights to Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve counts as luck...
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Saturday, December 30, 2006

New Years Resolutions

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Its that time of year when we all think about changing ourselves for the better. So here's my list of resolutions. I resolve to finish ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

A New Twist on Naturally Evolved Vampires

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I've just read a first contact novel called BLINDSIGHT, by Peter Watts. It's not quite like anything else I've ever read, packed...
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