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A have a flash fiction piece up at Terribleminds, Chuck Wendig’s site, “Vacation Day at Wonderland Simulations.” Go check it out!

A review of the book is up at Vampire Kisses. Well, I’m not sure if it’s a book review or a prelude to a book review.  But wheeee! Update: Here’s the actual review. I don’t think it’s possible to have someone say something nicer or more inspiring to keep writing: “Being an adult you forget

It’s on my mind. It’s on a bunch of people’s minds.* Everyone who does National Novel Writing Month is getting ready for it, so it should surprise you, if you follow writers’ blogs, that we’re nattering on about it. What we’re doing, how we’re going to do it. Tips on getting started.  Professional writers are

I would like to direct you to my food blog (more of an online recipe book than anything else) for the recipes that are the last tangible result of “Valabar’s in Colorado,” a feast inspired by the restaurant in the Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust. There is klava.

Let us imagine, you and I, that we are watching a movie.  We move past the opening credits, during which the camera pans across the blackness of outer space, with a few stars here and there.  There’s a lot of text scrolling across the screen while heroic music plays…this takes two minutes. Then a spaceship

I read a story for a friend yesterday; she’s in a college writing class and doesn’t yet have a lot of experience. I ended up explaining something that I hadn’t fully realized I knew, so I’ll add it here, too. You may have heard this a bajillion times already, but in case you haven’t, I’ll

My daughter Ray keeps asking me to help her with her homework…not her math homework (she’s got that down; mostly I just need to check it for careless errors) but her writing homework. Every time she does, I’m reminded how not everyone has writer brain. For instance, she has a recurring set of questions:  “What

As you may know, I am trying to launch myself as a professional writer.  This has had its ups and downs, mostly a series of small, soul-eroding downs interspersed by a few interruptions almost-unbelieved ups. One of the series of small, soul-eroding downs is the short story rejections I receive.  I am at [checks Duotrope]

Ever have one of those moments when you realize that you’re about to know something you don’t know yet?  The Buddhists call it approaching a gateless gate; with my nerderiffic background, I tend to think of it as preparing to level. I’m preparing to level. I’ve been thinking, off and on, a lot about audience.

Gathering strength. # Amazing talk about storytelling by Chimamanda Adichie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg # Song of the Beast – Carol Berg: The parable of the prodigy–brilliant, destroyed, reborn with purpose rather than talent. With dragons. # Transformation – Carol Berg: Let the betrayals begin. I've come to expect to trust nobody in her books, but in a