A Dramatic Reminder to Write What I Know
January 23, 2012 in General Topics
Recently I was reminded of the old writer’s axiom: “Write what you know”. Perhaps “reminded” is an understatement. Let’s try “kicked with the steel-toed boot of feedback”.
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That’s what I’m talking about
November 26, 2011 in General Topics
I couldn’t sleep yesterday morning because my throat was sore and my mind was racing. A story idea that had been congealing for weeks finally gave way and burst forward like the first sunlight after you’ve been watching the sun threaten to push through the haze for untold morning hours.
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On fire (and so, I worry)
July 11, 2011 in General Topics
Right now, I feel like I am hitting on all cylinders. All my fiction I needed to sub is out there in the wild, I am editing up a flurry on my novel (the reader feedback was quite useful, so I’m revising once more before getting back into submissions), and I find story ideas coming forward in a torrent. But it’s not enough.
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How about the number 50?
June 26, 2011 in General Topics
Doing some math today with my fiction, I discovered I’ve written over fifty short stories since starting writing seriously back in my twenties. That is quite awesome. And a little bit obsessive.
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Old-school dialogue quality
March 19, 2011 in General Topics
One of the great motivations for writing my latest novel, The Tyrant Stratagem (that I’ve been submitting around to agents), has been my personal dissatisfaction in the quality of dialogue in major mass-market novels. It seems we have a cancer eating at modern fiction, even the more insulated elements like speculative fiction.
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