GoodReads Review: Between The Lines – Master The Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing by Jessica Page Morrell
Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing by Jessica Page MorrellMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis book has a lot of insight to offer for editing fiction and filling in the blanks that we sometimes take for granted. It's great in parti......
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Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake SnyderMy rating: 2 of 5 starsSo ... I feel as if I should preface this by stating I'm not really the audience for this book. I am a novelist, not a screenwriter, but I've hear......
GoodReads Review: The Spirit Ring — Lois McMaster Bujold
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster BujoldMy rating: 4 of 5 starsSet in a small Italian town in the Renaissance era (there are references to Lorenzo de Medici, so let's call it late 1400s), but a version where magic and metallurgy run together, The Spirit......
Anatomy Of An Idea: Hunting Fire
Grimbold anthology "Lost Gods" comes out tomorrow - order it here! - and contains one of my rare reprints, Hunting Fire. This began as a writing prompt / freewrite on the theme of unseasonable weather. As is my usual habit, I decided ......
Anatomy of an Idea: Waterways
My story Waterways was recently published in Storyhack, Issue 6, available here. The catalyst of the story is a sacred pool that bestows upon the people the skills of ancestors. When the city is conquered, the youngest of those who were imm......
Goodreads Review: Shades of Milk and Honey – by Mary Robinette Kowal
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette KowalMy rating: 4 of 5 starsIn a setting that pays homage to Jane Austen, young women of quality weave glamour, the delicate powers of illusion. This is the gift of the plain narrator, her only hope at finding......
Wednesday Wanderings
So I've just started submissions on a story entitled "Different Drummer," and I know - I just know - that this one is going to give me trouble with editors. It was written for a challenge to write about a character who isn't a hero, which I inter......
Wednesday Wanderings
Like many others, I've been sucked into the phenomenon that is Stranger Things. Not everyone is a fan, and I've heard complaints both from people who find the horror elements dull and would rather just watch the kids interact, and people who are ......
Idea Anatomy
I've had two stories published lately, Traveling By Starlight: A Journey of Two Ways, and Before Their Time, and I wanted to talk about where the ideas came from. Since the respective magazines are both for-purchase, and Outposts of Beyond ......
Wednesday Wanderings
So I've been working on the query and synopsis for Unnatural Causes, which I've asked a few folks to read and critique, and that's made me realize that one of my natural tendencies as a person causes problems when it comes to my writing.I've menti......