Author of The Spaceship Next Door
I would like to declare an official moratorium on all of the following cinematic tropes:
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post shortly before The Spaceship Next Door debuted. Philosophically, pieces like this were why I was writing for HuffPo in the first place: interest people in reading my articles, then show them something about my fiction writing. Since HP doesn’t share market information, I have no idea if this approach worked or not.
Wait, I could just quit?
I have a new article up at the Huffington Post this afternoon.
I didn’t know quitting was an option.
I have a new Huffington Post article up today. It’s more fun with bad writing, appropriately headlined “More Bad Advice for Writers!” Since the first one was kind of popular…
Posting today
I have a new blog post up at the Huffington Post. This one is called Success Bias, and you can read it by clicking here.
Why Your Dialogue is Terrible
My latest article is up on Huffington Post, on how terrible your dialogue is:
On fan fiction
I don’t write fan fiction, or publish fiction that existed at another time as fan fiction. I also don’t read fan fiction. To the best of my knowledge nothing I have written has spawned any manner of fan fiction out there, but it’s entirely possible I’m wrong because (again) I don’t read fan fiction.
Writing from scratch
I don’t want to alarm anybody, but do you realize how long it’s been since I started a novel from scratch? It’s been…
hang on…
(counting)
SEVEN YEARS.
(Holy shit. It’s been seven years. I was sort of kidding around when I started this post, but that’s forever!)
That sound you hear is me holding my breath
I am slowly going insane. This insanity is due to the following facts:
I haven’t felt like a writer in months
For the past few weeks I have been working on a rewrite – slash – edit – slash – reworking of a novel of mine called Fixer, about which you have likely heard almost nothing because I haven’t discussed it except in passing before now.