Posts Tagged ‘Huffington Post’
Success Bias–new HuffPo article
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. Also, if you are wondering if I have been recast as a young attractive black woman, I didn’t select the image to go with the article. I tried to select…
Read MoreDiscussions from Please Stop
Follow-up: Huffington Post article gets some conversations going The article I wrote on Friday— Please Stop— for the Huffington Post, has triggered a few discussions and a good deal of welcome attention. I’d like to thank the many people who have taken a minute to tell me how much they enjoyed the article, and also…
Read MoreHuffington Post Article on the Death of Print
A Well-Worn Subject As I was looking through the Huffington Post Books page last week, wondering what to write about next, I came across an article by a fellow blogger there (I’m not going to link to it) that annoyed me. The point of the article was that print will never die because the author…
Read MoreHuffington Post article on dialogue
Why Your Dialogue is Terrible My latest article is up on Huffington Post, on how terrible your dialogue is: There are ways to deliver exposition in dialogue, and it’s even possible for one person to give what amounts to a prepared speech, but it needs to be treated exactly like that. It can’t just appear…
Read MoreHuffington Post article, on genres… and a new mailing list
HuffPo article In this week’s Huffington Post article I discuss genres, and why they aren’t doing me any favors. Every description of one of my novels eventually requires the use of the phrase mash-up. As in, “Immortal is a sci-fi contemporary fantasy adventure historical-fiction humorous first-person confessional mash-up.” This is mostly accurate, but makes people faint, so…
Read MoreNew Huffington Post article, new SAPPHIRE BLUE review
My Advice I have a new article up at The Huffington Post this morning. It’s called My Advice Is to Ignore My Advice. Here’s the secret: writing a novel is really hard. That’s why writers will fall over themselves to tell you how they did it, because frankly nobody else quite understands the degree of…
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How to write a good sex scene I made my debut today as a contributor to the Huffington Post with an article on How to write a good sex scene. Give it a read! Incidentally the rest of the title was supposed to be “(or how not to write a bad sex scene)” which is really a…
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