But, shockingly, my child, yes, I do actually care more about something in my industry that may affect me down the road much more than I care about something that probably (a) will not affect me at all, and (b) I cannot affect in the first place ( Read more... )

I will not name names here, but I will put forth the story as a cautionary tale.

I freely admit that I am mercenary, and I will write damned near anything if you throw enough money at my head. So when someone approaches me with an opportunity to "write for a movie or TV show," sure, I'm intrigued, but wary. When you say "Don't ask me about the ( Read more... )

What do you do when you get a one-star review on Goodreads ( Read more... )

I know, I know, I always say that "there are no rules."

Welp. Maybe a few.

1. First and foremost: Do What Works For You. If you are an outliner, great! If you are a pantser, great! Some unholy amalgam of the two? Great! Ask twenty different writers what their process is, and you will get twenty different answers. Heck, my process is still ( Read more... )

I decided that I nevertheless want to weigh in, even though a couple of giants have already done so. Larry Corriea did a masterful fisking of the HuffPo article, and John C. Wright gave his own thoughts as well ( Read more... )

Maybe. Although I feel kind of bad about fridging someone in the very first scene, especially since I know who she is now. But it gives my character (who is still nameless! *dies*) even more incentive to find out what really happened.

In other news, my (published) Mom pointed me at a blog post at Spinetingler, wherein we are shown, once again in ( Read more... )

Holy CRAP, y'all.

I've seen authors do dumb shit before. I've blogged about it.

But I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything like thisSo, what do you do if a reviewer/editor posts a review on their LJ that's less than flattering to your work ( Read more... )

Kristin at pubrants tells us of an author that sent her agency an Express Mail package containing a handwritten manuscript, with no email address or SASE ( Read more... )

Okay, fellow writers on my flist, when you get a rejection in which the editor actually takes the time to give you crit, do you ( Read more... )

When last we left the Planet of Unprofessional Authors, a writer compared himself to Poe.

Now we have one comparing himself to Van Gogh and Picasso. Yes, we're painting pictures with words, but less can be more, dude, and I think you're stretching the metaphor ( Read more... )