Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I’ve had another confirmation that all of my conclusions about my dreams are true.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tweet If there’s one thing I’ve learned from a myriad of sources over the past ten years, it’s that I should never ignore myself when I feel irritable. I am not a person easily given to irritation. It takes a lot to push my buttons. Injustice is pretty much the only thing that can get […]
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tweet So. Thanks to Josh and a rollicking romp of insanity, I somehow got myself involved with the Kindle All-Stars Project. In short, KAS is the brainchild of one Bernard J. Schaffer, who is putting together a short story anthology for Kindle of various independent authors. The proceeds of the anthology will go to the […]
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
You want to write a novel? Here is the only way you’ll get what you want….
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
If you’ve been paying attention, dear inklings (and I know you have, because that’s just the sort of darling, attentive things you are), you already know that I harbor a love for all things sci-fi, and that this love includes a deep fondness for Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy….
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tweet What I learned about writing this week from facepainting for Fancy Faces at the Oklahoma State Fair is that facepainting is a fun, creative, interesting, and challenging job that makes me want to come home and curl up on the couch in blessed unconsciousness for twelve hours. I have also learned that composing coherent, […]
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tweet No, not Conan O’Brien. We’re talking somebody a bit less civilized than that (although, I suppose that some of you might find this debatable). Today, my dear inklings, we’re talking Conan the Barbarian, who is brought to you by the letter J. Why the letter J? Because if my friend and fellow writer Josh […]
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Being sick resets one’s brain to the basics. In three brief points, lets discuss some basics of good writing. We’ll look at story structure, rules for writing, and audience analysis.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Audience Analysis, Chicago Manual of Style, Christian fantasy, Colors of Deception, Demons of Saltmarch, Fantasy, Grammar Rules, KISS, Narrative Structure, Stephen King, Storytelling, Writing Rules
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tweet WHAT?! NO WILAWriTWE?!? That’s right, my dear inklings. Today, I shall give you a work(s)-in-progress update, which, if my calculations search functions are correct, I have not done since February. Fortunately for us all, a WsIP update also qualifies as a WILAWriTWe, because part of learning about writing includes all the doings of The […]
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Two days ago, seven Consortium writers gathered in Aaron’s living room to roundtable edit each other’s short story submissions for the upcoming Consortium Worlds, Vol. 1 e-zine. I probably don’t have to tell you how apprehensive I was, going into that meeting…
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