In my early writing days I believed that it was just me and the words. No one else would ever be involved. I was totally alone. I’ve since learned that writing doesn’t need to be so solitary. True, there are times when it should be just you and the keyboard, but there are many times when you should be around and involve other people. For example. critiquing and feedback of your work – I have heard the opinion that a writer must write a million words before they have anything worth sending out. I would argue that a million words without any outside scrutiny doesn’t improve one’s writing much at all. The feedback around what works and what needs work […]
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New Secret Project Now Revealed
I’ve got to share this newest project with you (like I don’t have enough already). JAHite and I are putting together a Handbook for Mad Scientists/Evil Doctors/Super Villains. Submissions open January 1, 2012. We’re both really excited about this project. I KNOW it’s going to be a lot of fun to write for and put together. You can find out more at: http://madscientistanthology.wordpress.com/
Read moreTis the Season
Most of us have probably watched a holiday special of one kind or another. When I was a kid, that holiday special was always “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. Okay, I’ll admit it, I still watch “Charlie Brown Christmas” every year, even now. There are lots of other holiday specials out there too. “Star Wars Christmas” comes to mind as a particularly… well let’s just say memorable to be charitable. The Muppets have a couple and pretty much every cartoon out there has at least one. I even saw “Ice Age Christmas” in the stores the other day. Yes, I bought it and it is pretty funny. All these specials got me thinking about why their creators did them in the […]
Read moreNaNoWriMo was NaNoNoGo
I was honestly looking forward to NaNoWriMo this year… and at the same time, not. The reason I wasn’t looking forward to it was because I knew I had a number of projects already on the go. Did I really need to add one more work-in-progress? But, I thought seriously about it and realized that I STILL owed my Scout troop the entire, finished version of “Boy Scouts of the Apocalypse”. That was why I WAS looking forward to NaNo. I would finally write the entire story, get the zombies out of my fevered brain and be able to face the troop when we went to camp. And then, World Fantasy Convention happened and NaNo got chucked out the window. […]
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