Tuesday, April 01, 2008

A Little Something Came Up Part II

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This continues my post of Tuesday, March 25th 2008. So what is the "art" that Cindy (in her Saturday, March 23rd post) was talki...
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A Little Something Came Up -- PART II

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This continues my post of Tuesday, March 25th 2008. So what is the "art" that Cindy (in her Saturday, March 23rd post) w...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Writing and Amazon and Survival on the Cyber-Shelves...

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It's Monday after 6pm and I haven't blogged. No, didn't forget it was "my day." Actually thought of it while I was doi...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Authors' Sites of Excellence

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I've always loved the positive attitude embodied in "I don't know, but I know where to find out..." Or even in Jim Cramer...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

How much?

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I'm in Jacksonville FL at the Southern Lights conference this weekend. I don't have a craft post prepared but a question that arose...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

New novel: WINDWALKER'S MATE

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This coming Tuesday, April 1, Amber Quill Press ( www.amberquill.com ) will release my Lovecraftian romance WINDWALKER’S MATE. This novel re...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Solar Heat

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The extremes that an author will go to just to sell a book . . . Even as I wrote Solar Heat I was imagining how we would make the book vide...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A Little Something Came Up PART I

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Linnea did a great job tackling this subject, but let me go back to Cindy's original post on torturing characters. Cindy Holby wrote in...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Oh, The Pain...Characters and Conflict

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I haven't skinned a character alive, as Cindy notes in her recent blog entry but as she also notes, it's not just the physical pain...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Where the UFOs are

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I am thrilled to announce that Preditors and Editors has awarded my site the Author's Site Of Excellence Award. Needless to say, I am ...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Craft, Torturing your characters or developing inner conflcit

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It has been pointed out to me in several recent talks I've given that I have built a reputaion for torturing my characters. When someon...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Form and Function

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Reading COMMUNIPATH WORLDS, the omnibus edition of Suzette Haden Elgin's Coyote Jones novels, reminded me of how short mass market SF bo...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What is Science Fiction - Really?

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I just noticed we reached 500 posts on this blog. Wow. From Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098382/ Near the e...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Plots That Work

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Again, riding on Cindy's coat tails here... There is no one right way to plot a book. Like Cindy, I'm a pantser or rather, I was mor...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

To kiss or not to kiss

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The Inuit (I hope I've got the politically correct name) and small babies rub noses and seem very happy with that. Nuzzling and the rubb...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Craft The Process

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I had the great pleasure this week of reading a synopsis for a sci-fi novel that really grabbed me. I won't mention the specifics of it...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Currently Reading

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Sorry I didn't post yesterday. This is a heavy time of year at the day job. I've recently been reading the Coyote Jones novels by Su...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Prologues and Spoilers

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I dropped a comment on Cindy's very provocative Saturday post (see below) on Prologues and Epilogues, and another on Linnea's post f...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

First Chapter Foibles

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Since Cindy talked about prologues, I'll talk about first chapters. I know we played around with opening lines/scenes a few weeks back. ...
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