Announcement
All the Things
I’ve got a lot of balls in the air right now. On Saturday, May 19th, I will be at the SFWA Nebula Conference in Pittsburgh, in particular I’ll be at the Clarion All Class Meetup from 3-6pm 😉 On Monday, Read more
Blathering
Hearts and Bodies
This will be cross-posted to Analog’s new blog site. My story in the current issue of Analog has the longest history of any short story I’ve written, and is, like its protagonist, a strange creature of thrown together parts. I’ve Read more
Blathering
Action is not Plot
PLOT is not ACTION. It can be easy to confuse the two. I sure have. I’ve heard great and award-winning authors summarize their view of plot as, “The stuff that happens.” Well, yes… a successful plot is the stuff that Read more
Blathering
The Power of Done
“When do you stop revising?” A friend asked me recently. “You can stop?” was my initial response, but the truth is more nuanced than that. (And besides, that answer was Not Helpful.) At some point in my writing career – Read more
Blathering
Story Shapes: The Hero
So once upon a time I thought I’d write about story shapes – the idea that stories can be thought of in these vague archetypical forms, and that will help with writing them. I jumped right in with “The Caper” Read more
Blathering
Hook Me
When I was still unpublished, I spent a lot of time worrying about My First Line and Hooking The Reader. If my very first line didn’t grab the reader by the throat and make them incapable of doing anything other Read more
Blathering
Fairy Dust
When I was seven years old, I received incontrovertible proof that fairies were real. It happened on a summer’s day. Midsummer? Maybe. I woke in the bed I shared with my twin sister to find a silver ring on my Read more