Science-fiction writer
I’ve never quite managed to take a real break from writing. Not because I write every day (I certainly don’t), but because even after weeks or months of not putting in any wordcount, I still think of my story, my ambitions and all the work I still need to do. Always have. And while it [...]
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 [...]
To round up the little series of posts on the ingredients of a professional attitude as writers, let’s take a look at the last two, positivity and vision. They are closely related, and it’s important to realize that we have a distinctive choice in the matter. Life is the result of a series of choices, [...]
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 [...]
As you might notice, I have a whole new blog set up. And it’s not just a new skin slapped onto the old thing that you’ve visisted before, but a spanking new blog. Ta-daaa! I know most of you guys use the Blogger platform to host your blogs, and that’s a pretty neat option. It’s [...]
I believe the most important element of powerful, compelling fiction is clarity. Fiction has changed over the past centuries. It’s not so much about fancy combinations of words, poetic descriptions or carefully disguised diatribes anymore. Society has changed, people’s attention spans have shortened, media has turned into a freakin Hydra that gobbles up our minds [...]
In which I bend and break my little synapses to express what the past month meant to me. To be honest, blogging didn’t exert any kind of deeper fascination on me before the past winter. I didn’t have a public blog of my own, and barely read any other blogs, except if I landed on [...]
There are as many recipes for great fiction out there as there are recipes for pancakes. You can rummage through hundreds of blogs and writers’ websites, read tons of books on writing and follow random advice, but since you’re not a mindless copycat, what works for others might not work for you. The best way [...]
In the beginning was the word. Then came the spellchecker, google web fonts and all that other stuff. But fact is, the word has always shaped reality for us carbon-based bipeds, and it’s become especially powerful in today’s communication driven society. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we live in a logocracy. And that’s great [...]
Have you recently read something by a contemporary writer that has left you breathless? Have you stumbled across a blog that you absolutely loved and kept coming back to? Have you read any article or comment that was so witty and fresh that you wanted to applaud the author and yell congratulations? Did you go [...]
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!
