One of my favorite podcasts about the craft of writing is Writing Excuses. Hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Brandon Sanderson, and Dan Wells, they live up to their tagline “Fifteen minutes long, because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart.” I disagree with the ‘not that smart’ bit. These people are […]
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I’m back from Convolution 2014. This year’s theme of Halfway Home describes how I’ve been feeling since Sunday afternoon leaving the hotel. I’m still reintegrating into my everyday life. My original plans were to write up a blow-by-blow of what I did at Convolution, much like I did for DragonCon. But the more I try,
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I went out yesterday for a long scheduled lunch on Saturday with Jennifer Carson and Melissa Snark. The conversation covered a wide range of topics about what was going on in our lives, but funneled into our writing and where we stood on various projects. From there we started discussing Convolution. We will all be
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After a few false starts, I’ve gotten working on the fourth draft of the story. I’m finding this time is that things are finally starting to feel right. Or at least, now the first chapter is feeling right. During my first pass through the story, I struggled with where to start it. I had a
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I’ve been following tweets and blogs from people attending DragonCon and Worldcon. Both are happening this weekend. I cannot begin to say how much I want to be at either of them this weekend. But the job that is paying the bills at the moment doesn’t easily allow me to attend anything 1.) on the
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