Because A) Nine Goblins has sold over 500 copies the first week, and that’s pretty awesome, and B) I am where I am, and y’know how it is, here’s a little something by way of amusement. The Sea Witch Sets The Record Straight I didn’t take her voice for myself. I want to […]
Category Archives: Writing
So for the last few years, come November, I have been doing my own little version of Nanowrimo called “Nanofimo”—National Novel Finishing Month. Actually, I rarely actually finish anything in November, but what I try to do is slam a few more thousand words on existing works and get them a little farther along. My […]
Soooo….let’s just sweep the chaos of the last twenty-four hours aside for the moment… Hi, internet! I have a new novella out! It is live and there are no more horrifying errors with chapter duplication! You should read it! On Smashwords On Amazon It will propagate out to other sites when Smashwords gets around to […]
I spent today in the bowels of the beast, by which I mean Amazon and Smashwords. Most of the Amazon time was spent trying to figure out how I tell it that I don’t want to be exclusive to Kindle and just hitting “Save” until it told me it was in review and I couldn’t […]
So there’s this lengthy scene in my current manuscript (which just came back for edits) involving a goldfish. It is awesome. I say this in all modesty. It is the Hero’s Journey with a goldfish. I had a lot of fun writing it. One of the edits is that there’s too much going on at […]
It was a day a little bit like today the way the clouds threw shadows over the hill the day you realized that you weren’t going to find your future. You were never going to go to Mars or Pern or Krynn You were never going to open the door that led, inexorably, to Narnia […]
When I was quite young—about seven or eight, say—my mother would take me to church, or as I knew it, The Most Boring Two Hours That Anyone Has Ever Experienced Ever In The History Of The Universe With Extra Boring Sauce. Needless to say, I was not a fan. It’d be church for an hour […]
So I was thinking today about good stupid characters, and it struck me that y’know…there’s just not that many. Now, I don’t mean characters who do really stupid things, when they are supposed to be perfectly intelligent human beings but they insist on doing Every Single Ill-Advised Thing Ever and you really want to hit […]
Normally I’d just let this go as another case of bad advice on the internet, but then I saw a comment by somebody that said they read it and felt bad. So, let’s just get this out of the way… This is a quiz posted on the blog of the Horror Writers of America, purporting […]
I have written too many words today and now I’m out. They needed to be written. The book won’t write itself. This is how I earn whatever fraction of a cent they pay me for every letter. The problem is that now I’m out of words and have started to forget the names […]