Year: 2020
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The #Writer’s Craft: #Edit using #Free SAS #Writing Reviser
(Beth Turnage) One gem in Google Apps is the free editing tool g.suite’s SAS Writing Reviser. Designed for school use, there is no reason why you can’t use it for your writing. Now, I love this thing, not only for its price point but also for the tools it offers, including, and get this, a……
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All English Teachers Should Write
I’ve been writing stories since middle school. They weren’t any good (and some of mine now still aren’t) but I was writing. I didn’t start caring about the craft of writing until I had stories of my own I needed to tell. My drive to master the mechanics, conventions, and forms of writing came when…
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Self-isolation Tips for the Jilted Generation
Well, I can safely say my hands have never been cleaner, every time I come in the house, I resemble Lady Macbeth, although I’m not sure she ever did her thumbs. Of course, in the UK, we are used to dealing with things like corona virus with humour. Who…
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March Lyrical Worlds
My March newsletter will be going out soon. This one includes a reprint of a Weird Western that was first published almost a decade ago. If you haven’t signed up yet, make sure you do so soon, so you don’t miss this story!Lyrical Worlds NewsletterSign up for news, free books, and more!Subscribe Thank you!You have…
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I Am a Cat
I recently finished reading Soseki Natsume’s I Am a Cat, and shortly after I finished, Findus handed me the below reflections and insisted I publish them for him. So here you go. I am a Cat. The name they’ve given me is Findus. It’s as good a name as any, I guess; occasionally, I’ll even…
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At a Bit of a Crossroads
I think we all come to them, in life. All the time. Points where seemingly minor decisions can have cascading effects for months or years. I think I’m hitting one of those in my writing life now. So now I sit here at three in the morning, unable to sleep because of thinking about this.…
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Carnival Days and Days in DSF
My fourth appearance in Daily Science Fiction came yesterday, with “Carnival Days and Days.” As the note at the bottom states, I wrote the story while sitting in the airport, waiting to come back home to Colorado about a year ago. It’s a story of air t…
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A Trade in Betrayals–done!
Late Thursday night I wrote the final words of the first draft of A Trade in Betrayals, the third (and likely final) book in the Arcist Chronicles. It feels like the book is…really good. The beats work and build well. The connections within the novel…
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Man of Steel
I have an uneasy relationship with superhero movies. As a lover of SF and fantasy, I appreciate the transcendent and speculative nature of the stories and characters. As someone that enjoys mindless action movies to unwind, the power and motion of the action-sequences are often mesmerizing. But as a teacher of literature, I’m also at…
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Goal setting—a fiction writer’s how to
I didn’t used to like creating specific goals. It always felt artificial and a recipe for disappointment. Because, sure, I could set a goal to write XYZ, but when I fell short I thought the fact of falling short would overwhelm any sense of accomplishm…