From the monthly archives: June 2009
I’m adding to my Rules for Writing – as I said, it’s a work in progress, created as I discover something else people should know.
And dude, this is something that everyone should know. It’s a golden rule you learn in preschool.
Rule 5- Don’t be an ass.
While this is one of [...]
I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, I am being represented by Brandi Bowles, an agent with Howard Morhaim Literary Agency!
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Sudden thought today: it seems the scifi authors who wrote about things that actually ended up happening (like the Internet or nanotech) seem to happily embrace the swiftly changing [...]
Traveling always wreaks havoc on my writing – blogging included. Yesterday my family and I drove 12 hours (plus more to accommodate a 6 year old’s bladder) from Durham, NC to Buffalo, NY. Needless to say, neither writing nor blogging got done. I know people who can blog/write while they travel, but I don’t seem [...]
Meant to include this on the last post and forgot. So TWO blog posts today! W00t!
Excellent advice from Joanna Penn about What I Wish I’d Known Before Writing My First Book — (This inspired today’s Measurable Goals post, for the record.) Is anyone using the Atlantis Word Processor? It has a “publish [...]
There’s one thing I never realized about this whole writing thing until- embarrassingly enough- this year. Whether you’re doing the “get started writing” thing or the “begin to get published” thing or the “alternate/indy/new media publishing” thing or even the “established writer veteran,” there is one thing you absolutely must have:
Measurable goals.
Having [...]
So here’s the deal. As you may have heard in I Should Be Writing #119, I’ve gotten a number of questions about outlining. I have decided to investigate other outlining methods than the snowball method- ALL FOR YOU. So shoot me your outline ideas/methods, or links to methods, and I’ll try them out. I have [...]
I just sat down and read Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh MacLeod, in one sitting. It’s a quick book to get through, and it has some very basic advice on creative living. But the biggest message I go out of the book is this simple thought:
I’m me. Be [...]
We are proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, the podcast Sword of Blood is available free now, and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art, launched this past week (order now!)
Note- I recorded this before I spent two weeks of hardcore writing [...]
I hate hate hate coming up with titles. Hate it. Sometimes they come to me, but that’s very rare.
My favorite title is for my short story, I Look Forward to Remembering You, about time travel and how our main character hires someone to go back in time to change her past. So it fit. [...]
The more I deal with professionals in my career, the more I have to be vague. I’m not going to blog my rejections, or even who did them. It’s unprofessional, and if an agent/editor googles you and sees you talking crap about people who rejected you, you’re going to look bad.
If you and I [...]
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