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I Didn’t Want To Go On Your Stupid Quest Anyway

Monday, April 30, 2012

Two weeks ago, I had a burst of inspiration for one of my novels, a fantasy quest with goblins, elves, werewolves, and a crabby dragon. So I rewrote the first chapter to include more hookers. It’s one of those love-it-or-hate-it books: the reader either finds it uproariously funny (Jay Lake did, because he has a [...]

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“Like a slimy oyster filled with metaphorical pearls!”

Saturday, March 24, 2012

When I first started taking my writing to a critique group, I wanted to learn so badly that I wasn’t usually upset by criticism. I hadn’t expected how hard it would be to use the feedback, however. As an example, here’s the crappy-ass beginning of a novel I wrote in 2006: An hour ago, he [...]

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Proudly nerding for Clarion West

Sunday, June 19, 2011

As most of you know, I read and write science fiction & fantasy (which is also called speculative fiction, or SF). It’s commonly thought of as the nerd genre. It’s okay, I think we can all admit it. People who like SF often have one foot in our world and one foot in their imagination, [...]

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NaNoWriMo is coming up…

Saturday, October 30, 2010

I thought I’d share my silly NaNoWriMo preparations. Every year, I draw my characters, make a fake cover, and write a fake back-cover blurb that will hopefully morph into the query letter I use when I later send agents a cleaned-up version of the manuscript. Here’s the blurb: The same supernatural sight that induced Mick [...]

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50K, Christmas lights, and Interstupidity

Sunday, November 29, 2009

I won NaNo at 50,006 words! A day early, which I don’t think I’ve ever done before. Audrey put a banana peel on my head as a victory hat, since we didn’t have a viking helmet lying around. (Or we did, she hid it because she just wanted to put garbage on my head.) Afterward, [...]

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