I'm at SFNovelists today, with a blog post about the similarities among various art forms.  Specifically, I'm discussing a few lessons I've learned doing photography that translate to my writing life.  The post can be found here. I hope you enjoy it.

Today's post can be found at the SFNovelists blog, a site I help to maintain with over one hundred other published authors in speculative fiction.  The post is called "Writing Resolutions for the Coming Year," and it is my annual post listing my goals and resolves for the coming New Year.  I hope that you enjoy it.
And I want to wish all of you a ( Read more... )

Today's post is up at Magical Words, the blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, John Hartness and several other wonderful writers. The post is called “On Writing: Creative Intersections--Point of View and Dialog”. It’s a follow-up to a post I wrote a few weeks ago about the ways in ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, John Hartness, Kalayna Price, and James Tuck, among others. The post is called “On Writing and Creativity: Who Are Our Characters?” In it I discuss the work I ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, and Kalayna Price, among others.  The post is called “On Writing and Creativity: Worldbuilding ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, C.E. Murphy, and Kalayna Price, among others. The post is called “On Creativity and Writing: Making the Most of Ideas, part VI ( Read more... )

Today I have a post up at the SFNovelists blogsite, a site I maintain in cooperation with approximately 100 other published authors of fantasy and science fiction.  The post (written under David B. Coe) is called "Six Non-Writing Things That Might Improve Your Writing," and it is about the things I do to keep my creative juices flowing and my life ( Read more... )

“Sometimes an idea really is greater than the sum of its parts.  Each idea on its own might show little potential; but combine them and BOOM!” The Summer-(Now-Fall) 2012 THIEFTAKER Blog Tour continues today with a new post at my “home blog” -- Magical Words. It is another in my series of essays dealing with creative ideas and how to handle them. ( Read more... )

Today’s installment of the Summer 2012 THIEFTAKER Blog Tour can be found, once again, at the Magical Words blog site.  The post is a continuation of my series of essays on writing ideas and what to do with them, and it’s called, “On Creativity and Writing: Making the Most of Ideas, part IV - Blindsides, Gaps, and Spinoffs”

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Today the Summer 2012 THIEFTAKER Blog Tour goes back “home” to Magical Words with a post on ideas and creativity called “On Creativity and Writing:  Making the Most of Ideas, part II--The Fear.”  For those of you who have been following the blog tour but are unfamiliar with the Magical Words site, it is a blog devoted to the craft and business of ( Read more... )