This is a thing I posted some 8 or 9 years ago.

I'm prompted to repost it by this essay by Max Gladstone ( Read more... )

Still not done with the current novel's first draft. I expected it to be 90K, but I'm past the big dramatic climax, past 100K, and still have a scene or two. Having the "do I dramatize this scene or just do it as a narrative summary?" dilemma ( Read more... )

Pretty much any time my lj goes quiet, it's a sign that I'm either busy at dayjob or actually writing fiction. The last two years it's been both ( Read more... )

This is getting linked all over the place:

Oh No, She Didn’t: The Strong Female Character, Deconstructed | by Ilana C. Myer

For the most part, I agree with this essay, particularly her points such as:
Just as I don’t imagine most women want to be thought of as “female writers,” the idea of “female characters” as a category for discussion seems ( Read more... )

Huh, apparently lots of people ego surf (i.e. google their own name). It's come up twice in the last day or so for me: Scalzi is giving it up for Lent, and a particular asshole on Twitter got (beautifully) mocked for it when he replied to someone who mentioned him by name but didn't @-tag him ( Read more... )

Bit of a thing coming into work this morning... Writing it down now because no one took my statement, and records are a good thing (thanks, Dad, for that life lesson ( Read more... )

Leaving this here for chaosvizier. He knows why.

https://twitter.com/wunderkamercast/status/553609054375784448

I have a bone to pick with my buddy Harry Connolly's post here.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what he means by "What unifies the books in the fantasy genre? A plot element." At first blush I read that as "Fantasy is a story with a maguffin," but I know Harry's not that dumb (not least because his fab new fantasy series The Great Way isn't about a ( Read more... )

I don't usually do this, because I just don't read that many books. Don't get me wrong--I read as many as I can. I'M ALWAYS READING. I'm just a kind of slow reader ( Read more... )

Well, sort of intentionally good timing. I saw the forecast for the foul weather last night and that was why on Saturday I was so gung-ho about getting the plastic cover screwed to the house ( Read more... )