Writing
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Back to Normal
Or as normal as it gets around here. After two weeks, my hearing has returned from its siesta. And thank freakin‘ God. Not being able to hear was bad enough, but the whole ‘stand up too fast, get dizzy, fall down’ bit was driving me insane. Stupid inner ear and its influence on balance. Save for Continue reading
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Getting It Right – Where to Start
A rare post on writing in a sea of running entries. For the better part of the past month I’ve been working on the synopsis for Genie Memories. Long story short – torture, horror, despair, and new swear words learned as well as how to use them. As much I hate writing this thing, I Continue reading
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Write Interesting @#$!
This (re)tweet came across from my good friend Miranda from Viable Paradise. It reminded me of a little story… One of my friends is best selling crime author Donald Harstad (Eleven Days, Known Dead, and Code 61 among others). Don is a former Sheriff’s deputy from just south of Decorah and his stories all take Continue reading
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Revision: Words vs Scenes
While across the pond, I purposely did not do any writing. Why? Well, it was vacation and writing is work. Sheesh. Beside that, I needed to reflect on some ideas I had and all the stuff I learned at the Maass workshop. I jotted down some stuff but mostly I let it percolate in my Continue reading
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Critical Maass
Greetings from Madison. Nope, not up here to protest. I’m attending the Fire in Fiction workshop led by uber-agent Donald Maass (the one I talked about a while ago). Tomorrow is the Master class and then the long drive home. I’ll try to do a full report on Monday or Tuesday. So far I’ve learned Continue reading
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Reviews
Another book review is up over at Adventures in SciFi Publishing. This time, I reviewed Bone Machines by John Dodds. Great book and it’s available in podcast form too. If you’re into crime thrillers, I recommend checking it out. Speaking of reviews … Justine Larbalesteir talks about why she loves bad reviews and John Scalzi Continue reading
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This Week in Me
I’ve been a bit bad as of late in updating the blog. So what have I been up to? 1. Bone Machines by John Dodds Bone Machines came to me via Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing and I’ve not only been reading it, but also listening to the (free) Podcast from Podiobooks. The book is a Continue reading
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Fired Up
Over on the Viable Paradise mailing list, a few people were chatting about an upcoming seminar in Madison, WI called Fire in Fiction with Literary Agent Donald Maass and author Nalo Hopkinson. I know of Maass. In fact, I’ve got a couple of rejections from his agency when I queried Asymonte all those years ago. Continue reading
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Yes, It Applies To You
A couple of days ago on Twitter, I did a bit of ranting : Working in Tech Support, I see this on a daily basis (twice alone today). It is frustrating to know that you’ve put a lot of work and effort into making the steps as clear and easy as possible, only to have Continue reading
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Last Week of the New Year
January has been quite a writing month. As it winds to a close, figured I’d share some of the fun bits. • I’ve written a little over 17,000 words on Far Reach thus far and made huge progress on the outline. The story is starting to come together in my head which means it’ll get Continue reading
Moose and Ink 