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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I've been thinking lately about reader trust. Broadly, as a writer, you have an obligation to hook a reader in your opening paragraphs and give them faith that you can deliver a good story. Seems obvious. But recently I've been thinking there are mitigating aspects to this.
While I was at ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
The other day, my 4-year-old son asked me, "Dad, are you done with your book yet?"
"No."
He looked disappointed.
At first, I thought Anjula put him up to it, but apparently he's just been listening to me bitch for so long that he's picked up on the project. Now he ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
So, it turns out that it's pretty easy to cut... if you've got a chainsaw.
I'm knee-deep in gore and pretties.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I wrote a novelette last week. The interesting thing about it was that I literally had no idea what I was doing.
It was originally intended to be a sort of light-hearted romp -- with a point, mind you, but a romp, nonetheless. But one of the things that I've learned ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I just got the final cover for Pump Six and Other Stories from the gentlemen at Nightshade:
And here's a link to the entire jacket:
I'm really excited to see the collection taking its final form. It's starting to feel real to me. Now when someone asks what I write, ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
This is embarrassing to admit, but I've discovered that the quality of my novel varies in direct proportion to how much caffeine and trashy rock I'm listening to when I read it. I just went through the last third of the book with coffee and Nickelback... and it ROCKED! ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Tip of the hat to Lou Anders who passed me this link; they've made glow-in-the-dark cats in Korea.
When I wrote "The Calorie Man" this questionable little trick had been performed on rabbits. It provided the creative spark for Cheshires, and also formed the basis for the grain-sniffing IP ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
A while back, John Klima approached me about doing a short story for his Logorrhea anthology. I could write anything I wanted, as long as it was based on a word that had won the National Spelling Bee. Almost immediately, I knew which word I'd take.
Macerate has ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I just hit the 150,000 word mark with my novel. I haven't gone in to start trimming yet, but I know that some sections will need to grow still and I've got some final scenes to write yet, so I'm guessing that the final product will end up being ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Mostly, I'm a cynical bastard about holidays. I feel irritated and manipulated by them. So when someone tells me I should be thankful, right here, right now, my knee-jerk response is something along the lines of "screw you."
That said, the holiday comes at serendipitous time because I just happen ...
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