Science-fiction writer
Hey guys! I’m back from my holiday ski-trip with all bones intact, and can’t wait to start blogging again! I hope y’all had a great start into the new year, and that you’re gonna make 2013 your best year ever. Here’s to grabbing opportunity by the throat! Shall we begin? Let’s talk about staying on track [...]
I have many things to be grateful for, and most of them happened this past year. It was a wild ride, I can tell you that, quite scary and humbling at times, often instructional, and always exciting. I’ve grown out of my old skin and started actively pursuing my dream, and it’s given me much [...]
For my 100th blog post on this ominous 13th of December 2012 (in the Eve of Ruin of ALL CIVILIZATION! *blood-shot stare*), I’ve polished my 13 zombie emergency weapons and readied them for battle. So put on your gloves and goggles, and let’s get ready to roll! Stationery Shotgun A modified four-barrel shotgun that can spit [...]
There are a great many different types of author blogs out there, some of them absolutely awesome (like John Scalzi’s Whatever, Chuck Wendig’s Terribleminds, Larry Brooks’ Storyfix, Janice Hardy’s The Other Side Of The Story and Jody Hedlund‘s blog, and dozens more) and some of them rather peculiar and all over the place (won’t give examples, I’m sure you [...]
November is the perfect month for writing and being creative, whether along with the gazillion people doing NaNoWriMo, or just because the weather has begun to suck so badly there’s just no other viable thing to do but curl up with a good book (preferably your own manuscript) and travel to another world. This year [...]
Blog hops. Can’t live with them, can’t ignore them, lest thy upseteth the balance of the internet-eth. Hence — the hoppeling. Last week I got tagged by writer and friend Renée Miller, who got tagged by short story writer Helen Maryles Shankman, who got tagged by someone who got tagged, and so it hops along. [...]
Last week, literary agent and blogger Rachelle Gardner put up a post on the need for a platform for each writer, and a heated discussion ensued, more or less centered on blogging being a time suck for writers, and of “platform” being more than just an online presence. This week, author Jody Hedlund reopened the [...]
Social media interaction can be an incredibly wonderful and beneficial experience, if you’re doing it right. The job description of the modern writer includes having a coherent and professional social media presence, and we’re all doing our best to achieve that. But sometimes, we do too much and step over the line into Spam Land, and [...]
My very talented fellow sci-fi writer J.W. Alden reminded me of something important with his latest post: that blogging about your honest interests as they pertain to writing, however wild they may be, is a very good thing. Because it comes from a real and immediate place within you, and the passion translates. And blogging [...]
Told you good things come to patient writers! After an incredible, busy week at the 27th Annual Antioch Writers Workshop, where Les has given a fiction writing seminar for a wide range of writers, he is now back and ready to give us the winner of the Five Sentence Outline contest. He’s also taken the [...]
I'm fascinated with the dynamics of the human mind and the mechanics of the universe, so I twist both of them into a twine and make a pretty little bow. Around a plasma cannon!
