Monday, December 08, 2008

Addiction, Danger and Flaws, Oh My!

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Continuing Rowena’s theme from yesterday, I’m going to yammer on today about the flaws in characters in SFR, not just because I think it’s a...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

High Romance: Addiction in speculative romance

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How many Romantic heroes can you think of who are addicts of one sort or another? Add up all the alcoholics, the sex addicts, the gamblers a...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Darkover Con

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Over Thanksgiving weekend we attended Darkover Grand Council, just north of Baltimore, as we always do. Despite the name, the con no longer ...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Mumbai, Chabad, Terrorism, Love

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The Essence of High Drama Is Life This is a blog about "Romance" -- Romance in faraway places with strange sounding names. But tod...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Assumption of Ever After

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What differentiates a romance-genre book from, say, a woman’s fiction novel or a mystery novel is—according to industry pundits—the requirem...
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The Cost Of Magic

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Magic costs the user. Every writer of speculative fiction or fantasy knows that. Don't they? Industrial Light and Magic (TM) has its cos...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it! While this holiday has one drawback, the crushing amount of clean-up duty afterward, in genera...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Linguistics For Writers

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Those who haven't read past posts on this blog should take a look at the post and comments by Rowena Cherry http://aliendjinnromances.bl...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Writing Tip #2: Smiling, We Wrote This…

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Like Tip #1 last week, this bit of writing craft experience comes from teaching two back-to-back weekends of writing workshops. And in betwe...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Editorial Ass: C[r]ash Flow (Or What Went Wrong in October in Book Publishing)

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Editorial Ass: C[r]ash Flow (Or What Went Wrong in October in Book Publishing)
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Problem-Solving Sundays .... the future of Chain Bookstores

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Who better than speculative fiction authors and a few romantics with their heads in the stars (and the warp drive) to set the world to right...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Work with Boundaries

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I thought about Linnea's remark on the neat-o, peachy things about writing after raking three bags' worth of leaves Monday. I don...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Gift: Giver: Recipient

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There has been a fascinating discussion in the comments on Linnea Sinclair's post: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=26974492...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

We was happy!!!!! (writing tip #1)

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I’ve spent the past two weekends, back-to-back, teaching writing workshops out of town for two different writer groups. (Yes, that is me on...
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