This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series when […]
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On June 23, I went to an introductory lockpicking class, The Art of Lockpicking, hosted by Atlas Obscura and taught by Jeremiah Jensen. It was held at the Lighthouse Writers’ Race Street location, which I’d never been to before. It’s a charming location aswamp in parking issues, so I was late getting there. Fortunately, although
I survived Denver Comic-Con, and all I got was a stupid Nakitomi Plaza Parking Permit! Actually, I got a few other things, but none of them cost more than a dollar. Or were eaten before I left for home. Friday: I was on a panel for Indie Book Publishing
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…or that at least didn’t succeed as hoped. Once upon a time, I wrote a book for a ghostwriting client. It was one of those dream projects that paid pretty well and that I had a lot of freedom on. The only requirement was that it have some kind of sci-fi element to it. The
I don’t have much time this week to blog (a deadline is a week earlier than I thought it was!!!), but I’ll get back to the study series as soon as I can. … Failure is life’s way of telling you that you need to change. Not necessarily that you need to completely dump
Books I was recommended: Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh The Silence, by Tim Lebbon The Well-Fed Writer, by Peter Bowerman This list is shorter than I like, but I do have permission to ask Jonathan Maberry for some good action/horror titles. Book to Study: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler, as per Laura Hayden’s mystery
I’ve never understood Book of the Month clubs. But then…I read a lot of books.* I signed up for a clothes of the month club, basically. AND WHOAH. THEY SEND ME CLOTHES I LIKE AND I DON’T HAVE TO BE OVERWHELMED WITH ALL THE SHOPPING AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THEY FIT. Am I willing to
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November was a busy month. No NaNoWriMo, but I still accomplished about 130,000 words this month all told. Finished the ghostwritten adventure thriller, finally. WHEW. Soundtrack: Vocal Sea Shanties. Finished the ghostwritten cozy (second in its series) on time, although with changes to the plot. The stuff in the outline wasn’t working, and the client
November was a kind of tipping point for me, although what it is exactly that I tipped between, I’m not sure. It feels like I tipped between “not confident” and “confident” on a personal level, as in, “She is a confident person.” But where that came from or what it means, I don’t know. It’s probably
Something I’m exhausted of lately: The kind of drama that comes from people who want more from you than they’re willing to give. Sometimes that drama comes in very polite packages, and it’s only when you step back can you assess what’s not being done or said and strip the message down to its core
