Whoops — we seem to have written another guest post, with another giveaway! It’s up at Deadline Dames — it’s about writing characters without a spreadsheet:
When I was a full time professional fiction editor, and even for a couple of years after that, I spent a good deal of time talking about characters. I even [...]
There’s a guest post up on Dionne Galace’s it’s not chick porn — and there will shortly be a contest for a signed copy of the book. The post itself deals with “inspiration”:
Inspiration is a tricksy thing. There are many authors out there who will say that it is a glorious god come from on [...]
Well, I imagine some people know these things. In fact, I bet a bunch of people know them, and are now wondering why I am even bringing this up.
The next book from the Anna Katherine Co-op of Evil will be set in our Door-filled New York, and it will star vampires. I’ve gotten into a [...]
There’s a guest post up at My Book, the Movie — it talks about writing action scenes:
One of my favorite things to come across while I’m reading is a really fantastic action scene. When the author’s somehow managed to tell me where everybody is, what they’re doing, how they’re feeling, what the action means, and [...]
There is a very popular idea in fantasy writing that magic should have rules. What I mean is, there should be a system, a consistency to the magic being used by the characters.
I am totally fine with this idea. Since magic often takes the place of (or artificially creates) real-world systems, it makes sense that [...]
