So I was thinking about my Hitman in Hell outline today, and I realized something. It has the same issue, for me, that Angry Bitter Angel does. To wit, and to quote the handsome and hardworking Bruce Bethke ( Read more... )

This is the text of a talk I gave at the League of Utah Writers last night. I leave it here in the hopes that someone will find it useful ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned more than once that I'm not a natural novelist. The short story is the milieu that has chosen me, not the other way around. I wrote my first novel completely by accident, and writing one on purpose has been daunting, to say the least ( Read more... )

So, I've got this little flash piece I was thinking about subbing to a publication, and I was staring at it and trying to decide if it's even a story, to be honest. I read it to the Hubby, and he thinks it's a story, so that's something ( Read more... )

Read and rate Weekend Warrior stories.

Edit my own WW story with the ending the Hubby suggested, because it is awesome. Ha. I like this much better.

Check to see if anyone besides Digital Horror opened for subs today, because I have three novelettes still looking for homes. After a giant pain-in-the-ass process because gmail is a butthole, I ( Read more... )

So far, I have a pair of reminders at the top of the page: Pick up the threads left over from the last novel, and drop a couple a threads in this one to leave for the next one; and start exploring larger issues in this world I'm building.

If only I knew what those "larger issues" actually are. Guess I should figure that out...

And, shut up, no, ( Read more... )

So, I'm contemplating my Hitman in Hell novel (as one does), and realizing that I actually have a lot going on in here. And maybe I don't need (yet another) subplot, but I just need to weave the emotional journeys of my characters in with the concurrent plots of (a) getting out, and (b) fomenting rebellion ( Read more... )

Which is why description does not come naturally to me, and I suck at it ( Read more... )

And they are assigning... homework.

This week's episode is on idea generation, and the homework is this ( Read more... )

Because Dave Farland just quoted super-agent Albert Zuckerman's Writing the Blockbuster Novel, referring to what we call "transport." Apparently, in choosing (or creating) your settings, you should have one that transports your audience to a place they'd want to go.

Welp. I guess I'm failing at that, because this story is set, literally, in Hell ( Read more... )