Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year

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I have a certain resistance to the idea of celebrating New Year’s Eve in a big way (but, hey, any excuse to eat a festive meal and drink cha...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Astrology Just For Writers Part 5 - High Drama

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Pluto and Vampires -- continued from Part 4 Last time we started to look at Pluto as the ruling planet of Vampires (friendly and unfriendly ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

CHANGE OF HEART: the quandary of the comeuppance

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Today’s blog picks up from last week’s blog , which was based on the movie, Serenity . (A great flick and one I heartily recommend if you’ve...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas

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Recently I reread (again) parts of a fascinating book called THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS, by Stephen Nissenbaum. It explores the shift from the...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Astrology Just For Writers Pt 4 - High Drama

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SORRY - THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO AUTO-POST ITSELF TUESDAY 12/23/08 This post is about Vampire Romance, or Romance with aliens or Immortal charac...
Monday, December 22, 2008

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS: villains, conflict and killing off characters

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A couple of disclaimers. First, this blog will contain SPOILERS for Gabriel’s Ghost, Shades of Dark and the movie, Serenity . Second, I kno...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Questions of Immortality

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I've been reading a YA novel called SUCKS TO BE ME, subtitled "The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teenage Vampire (Maybe)....
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Villain Defined

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Linnea Sinclair and Susan Grant have fingered the exact problem most writers face. Most of us aren't criminals or megalomaniacs, not eve...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

DOUBLE-DUTY: PUTTING A FACE ON CONFLICT IN AN SFR

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I just got off the phone—literally—with author Susan Grant . I have no idea how she has time to call in between piloting 747s, writing her b...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

From Roy Blount, president of Author's Guild.

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Susan Kearney asked for this to be posted: >From Roy Blount, president of Author's Guild. Pass it along! I've been talking to bo...

Knight's Fork

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

UFOs

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER focuses on UFOs. Personally, although as a long-time SF fan I believe other intelligent life probably...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Tree In The Forest

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Another source of crazy ideas for Paranormal and SF Romance is the word problem or philosophical puzzle known as a Koan. Take care: these th...
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