Here is the riff I wrote up after my informal poll the other day (following another discussion) about words you choose not to use.

I wanted to get into the baggage that individual words and phrases can accrue, but the brain is awash in heat and humidity.

This entry was originally posted at http://sartorias.dreamwidth.org/956611.html. Please ( Read more... )

Another book seems to be trying to grab me, so while I veer between ongoing projects and escaping the unrelenting heat with tv watching (more NIF later today) and reading, I'm writing notes and watching the tetris pieces fall and interlock. If they fuse, well, then, that's what I'll be doing ( Read more... )

This was one of the panel topics at the recent Fourth Street Fantasy con in Minneapolis. The panel went really well, I thought, bouncing between all the various branches of TOM study. Not surprising as it is so very fundamental to human existence ( Read more... )

I guess anyone can get anything out of seminars, workshops, classes, etc. But yesterday a friend called up, who had paid good money to attend a writers' workshop. This friend is getting back to writing after having recently retired--wrote a lot years ago, then it dried up when job and family took over, and now that the household is down to one, and ( Read more... )

Heh. Couldn't resist that subject header.

I'm here at Fourth Street Fantasy Faire, a one-track convention that is really a long conversation about reading and writing, with lots of spin offs. Terrific start.

But also, it's my turn at the BVC blog, where I talk about the beau ideal and I hope you will, too.

If you like shapeshifter paranormal romance with suspense, humor, and romance as a tight trifecta, I recommend Dragon's Luck, which I beta read. That is, I was supposed to beta read it, but I enjoyed it so much I forgot to take notes. Lauren Esker is an indie living up in Alaska, new on the scene, whose books keep getting better. Right now this ( Read more... )

Rachelmanija and I talk about"specialness" in our reading and subsequently our approach in writing.

Reprise on bricolage, after a bunch of related discussions online and at cons. Plus mentions of a couple books, including Andrea K. Höst's new release.

Coming at risk taking from another slant.

Over here at his LiveJournal.

The take-away is that writers write.

(Curiously enough I recently read a YA novel that converses with fan fiction, by Rainbow Rowell, called Fangirl.)