My friend Davis asked me that question recently, and it's been asked a few other times, especially since I've been co-editing PodCastle. And I appreciate it. Because in general, the writing has been going very slow, and if there's something I could do better right now, that would easily be at the top of the list. (You know, right next to eating ( Read more... )

Uncle Jim likes to say every character in the story thinks they're the King on the chessboard.  Even the pawns.

What surprised me today was when I wrote one passage, really one exchange between two characters, a few short sentences of dialogue -- and all of a sudden I realize that the character I thought of as the pawn turns out to be the king.

God, ( Read more... )

"Heart of Clay" is (I think) mostly done.  Depending on what a few betas say, I may be sending this sucker out into the great unknown very soon.  I'm feeling pretty good about this one.

"Haole" is very close to being ready to go out to the very kind people who offered to read it yet again.  I love this story loads.  I think I've solved quite a few ( Read more... )