Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Love letter to David Simon
Television as it should be We decided a few weeks back that it was time to introduce the children to The Wire, which is also referred to in our household as The Best Show Ever Made For Television. (There will be no arguments on this point. If you have seen it and disagree, we might…
Read MoreA brief outline
Don’t try this at home I know a lot about how other people write, mainly because of the advice I’ve gotten about writing over the years. That’s almost unavoidable, because writers talk to each other quite a bit, or at least more than practitioners do in most professions. One reason for this is that writing…
Read MoreAccidental Network
When I was still trying to understand Twitter I had this conversation once with a friend who signed onto Twitter before I did. “I’m in a chat.” “On Twitter? How the hell do you chat in Twitter? Is there a room everyone goes to?” “No, we just all follow each other.” This struck me as…
Read MoreBinge Writing
On writing in short bursts I am often asked by imaginary people how it is I managed to have gotten so much writing done over the years despite working full time and raising two children to their current heights. And the answer is very simple: I am a binge writer. This fantastic term, which I’m…
Read MoreThe joys of research
Researching a new book So I’m busily researching material for the third Immortal book, tentatively titled I Have No Idea What This Is About Yet Immortal. I may change the title later. Researching something to add onto an existing creation, when that creation is a mutant amalgam of history, science fiction, and fantasy, is a…
Read MoreOn agents
I ended up in a Twitter chat last night for anyone interested in asking a literary agent a question, and I realized… I didn’t have any questions. Well, that’s not true, I had two: “would you like to represent me” and, “how about now?” But those are rude questions, because I have to think there…
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