The Summer 2013 Thieves' Quarry Blog Tour resumes today with a post at my "home" blog -- the Magical Words site.  Magical Words is 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, and James Tuck, among others.  Today's post is about a recent ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://www.sfnovelists.com, the group blog on speculative fiction that I maintain along with a group of over one hundred published authors of fantasy and science fiction.  The post is called “Avoiding the Convenient Plot Point,” and it’s about the narrative choices we sometimes make that are more convenient than they ( 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 Edmund Schubert, among others. The post is called “On Writing: Revisions and Editors,” and it’s about working with an editor to improve our manuscripts. 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, Stuart Jaffe, and Edmund Schubert, among others. The post is called “Basics of Writing, part IX: How to Revise a Manuscript or Story,” and it’s a ( 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, Stuart Jaffe, and Edmund Schubert, among others. The post is called “Revisions Revisited,” and it’s about the revisions I’m doing on the first Thieftaker ( 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 Stuart Jaffe, among others. The post is called “Writing Your Book, part X: The Read-Through” and it’s about the final revisions I make to a newly ( Read more... )

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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, and C. E. Murphy. The post is called “Always” and it’s about creative process and how we as writers are perceived by those who don’t write. I hope you enjoy it ( Read more... )

I finally finished my massive rewrite of the contemporary fantasy I've been working on.  It was a tremendous amount of work, deeply wrenching at times, and deeply satisfying at others.  In a way I was taking an old book and grafting a new book onto it.

I let the manuscript sit for a little over a week, and now I'm polishing a bit.  And sometimes ( Read more... )