Most mornings, I sit down at 5:00 and write until 6:00 or 7:00, getting out about 1,000 words. The last few weeks have been frustrating. Â I’ve been driving toward the finish of a book that just doesn’t want to end. Scenes keep getting added. Â Some will come back out; this is not going to finish …
I am in Flagstaff. Arizona, at the Starry Heaven writer’s workshop. That means there are 11 of us critiquing each other’s novel manuscripts. We’ve spend months prepping, and it’s quite fun to meet in person. I knew two of the people from before, and had met a few of the others in passing. Some are …
Arundhati Roy came to Seattle last night and spoke to a sold-out crowd at Town Hall. The rest of my family stayed home in an odd resonance: the family teenager was putting the finishing touches on a school project about Gandhi. If they don’t yet, schoolchildren will be studying Arundhati. For those who don’t yet …
My futurismic column for this month deals with animal intelligence –it’s entitled “What are the Animals Becoming?” I just popped over to Nancy Kress’s blog to see how she’s doing, and it turns out she just blogged on the same topic (or at least mentioned the prevalence of stories about genetically altered animals in her …
So if you are the kind of reader who waits for all the books to come out before reading the series, well, here you go. Check out the last of my four-post series on writing over at Shaun Farrell’s Adventures In Sci Fi Publishing. This one talks about how to sell your work, and what …
The kind and very busy Shaun Farrel has once more allowed me to post up a guest blog entry at his site, adventuresinscifipublishing….this is the thuird entry of four…I already gave away one book – I will give away another to someone who comments on this post, or the last post next week.
