The Silence
Every now and then, I drop in to Neil Gaiman’s site to see where he’s travelling and what he’s thinking about. A few days ago, Neil quoted from science fiction author Samuel R. Delaney’s letters:...
View ArticleWriting Your Book, part VII: The Beginning of the End
It’s been several weeks since my last “Writing Your Book” post. Last time, as you may or may not remember, I wrote about “The End Game,” the devices that we use to set up our endings, and the hints...
View ArticleWriting on the Edge of Genre
I’ve always been fascinated by art which is hard to classify: music that hovered between punk and reggae, say, or jazz and alternative rock. For me the blend is itself interesting, forming a new...
View ArticleWriter Identity: Who do you want to be?
“I wanna be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky…” (Counting Crows) Fantasy folks—writers, movie buffs, cosplay devotees, gamers and all the other kind of people you...
View ArticleOn Writing: Characters to Love, Characters to Hate
I’ve been asked quite often why I never went back to write more books in my first series, the LonTobyn Chronicle. There are several reasons — I had other things I wanted to write, I had completed the...
View ArticleWriting To Our Strengths, or What I Learned From Barry Zito
For all of you out there who are not sports fans — in particular baseball fans — forgive me my self-indulgence. But this was just too good a “teaching moment” to pass up. On Friday, the St. Louis...
View ArticleBooks For Which I Am Thankful (An Early Thanksgiving Post)
My regular week off from MW coincides with Thanksgiving week, which is convenient, because I will be traveling with my daughter to look at colleges in NY and New England, so I wouldn’t really have time...
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