Just the random stuff that pops into my head and might be worth a read to my fellow sentients.
One could call it a coincidence—mere happenstance—but I prefer to consider it portent. I just got back from the 2013 Superstars writing seminar with Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, James A. Owen, Eric Flint and Tracy Hickman as instructors. I’ll be delving into some of what I learned there in an upcoming post, but what I want […]
Making the Best of Patterns in the Wash Read More »
I got my hard-copies from WordFire Press today. Both The Pandora Sequence and Five by Five arrived today. For those of you who didn’t know, I’ve been doing some production work for WordFire, including eBook conversions and interior book design / layouts. Thus far I’ve worked on titles written or including work by Kevin Anderson, Rebecca
Another Step Forward in the Master Plan Read More »
I’ve got a panel coming up for CoSine 2013 and decided to do a bit more research than normal. In this case the panel will discuss whether or not the makers of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” are justified in stretching out the original novel “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” into three movies. I
How Two Snakes Made a Hobbit Read More »
I’ve been contemplating the nature of the culture and government of my 1871 Roswell society. I’m at that point in the new book where I have to define it and lay the groundwork for future memory. As I contemplated this on the drive in to my day job this morning, something occurred to me. Government
A Foundation for Roswell Read More »
So, I sat down at my day-gig and ran a quick run-through of FB headlines. You never know what you might trawl up from there, and I got lucky over the past two days. And NO, I’m not talking about some hottie from Zodicus Zu’ul… (although some of what that guy posts is positively UberHotness.)
Inspiriation: 50% Weirdness, 50% External Input, 50% Science, and 7% Cigars & Scotch Read More »
I haven’t blogged in about a week. The reason is that I’m diligently working on wrapping up Jake Lasater’s first novel. I have a handful of chapters to go, a full-on edit and then a typo edit, with some peer-review mixed in for good measure. However, as folks in my writing group last night went
The Challenges of Conflicting Emotions Read More »
I’ve been meaning to write this for about a week now. I finally got to sit down on my back porch, kick back with the laptop in an old, fairly beat up Lazy Boy and get some writing done, so no more interruptions will let me finish this little bit of anecdote. As you may
Strong Women in Fiction Read More »
A friend of mine recently posed a question about whether the use of adverbs was appropriate in writing or not. This was my reply: Words, like anything else, are simply tools to be applied at the right time to the right task. As writers, deliberately forgoing a particular word or class of words eliminates a
The Dogma of Adverbs Read More »
