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 […]
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OsFest 5 has become one of my favorite conventions to date. It was an eight-hour drive to get there and back. Guy De Marco, Peter J. Wacks and I managed to slip in a dozen panels each over the weekend (okay, so Peter got in one more—overachieving bastard that he is), and from my side
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At OsFest 5 I had the good fortune to be involved with a panel called “Plot in an Hour.” Guy De Marco, Peter J. Wacks and I guided our audience through creating a science fiction novel plot, and had it done in an hour. I have to admit, it was some of the most fun
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I’ve met a plethora (yes, I said plethora) of writers and authors over the past two years, and from every level of the craft both in skill and career level. I’ll tell you the one constant for pretty much all of them: writers groups. Writing is, for the most part, a solitary craft. We write
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One day of the convention has passed by. We pulled in at about 2:15 after an 8-hour drive from Denver to Omaha, Nebraska for OsFest5. Special thanks go out to Guy De Marco and his lovely wife T. L. De Marco for putting pretty much all of this even together for Peter J. Wacks and me. Last
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I’ve been talking about it for some time now, but the truth is I hadn’t actually been able to focus on it since around the end of May. It’s funny, as a writer and a day-gig-go-getter and a self-promoter and a home-owner and a part-time political activist and a gamer and a short fiction writer
I’m a writer, so digital files are my meat ‘n taters. I access my writing and work files from a laptop, a personal workstation, and a couple of servers at my day gig. Rather than carrying a thumb drive with me that has everything, I use a service called DropBox. Now, this may sound like
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A sunny and cloudy Sunday afternoon with gray skies and soothing gaps of blue. The occasional thunderclap rolls down upon us from the heavens, and my back porch—my sanctuary—is as comfortable as you can imagine. Dubstep feeds into my brain through headphones, a breeze dances over my skin, and the air is warm. I’m wrapping
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