Monte Cook is issuing a simple challenge. Throughout the month of August, I pledge to only say positive things on line. I’m calling this A+, as in, “A positive force,” or just “August positive. I’m going to give this a try in August because I think it’s a good way to check my own defaults.
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This animated short, Frog Chase, is by my friend, Rebecca Celsi. She animated it “on the iPAD using cut paper, shed snakeskin net, rippled glass, soil, leaves, and a bear she felted over a wire armature last week.” Oh, and she’s 12. So what were you doing when you were 12?
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So… I’m not sure this sentence does what they wanted it to do. I mean, it might have seemed like a good idea to take my thesaurus search and plunk it into their ad copy, but…
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The villain problem, as we define it here at the beginning of the ‘cast, is when the heroes are less proactive than the villain, when they spend most of the book doing little more than reacting to the cool things the villains do. It’s one reason that villains are often more interesting, more memorable, than
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I’ve worn glasses since I was in third grade but usually opt for contacts during conventions because I like having more peripheral vision. You can get a sense of how strong my prescription is by looking at distortion the lenses cause. I haven’t gotten new frames or new lenses since before we moved to NYC,
Here we have a debut novel by Mike Underwood for your consideration. For Geekomancy he’s basically turned geek culture into a magic system. Let’s see what his favorite bit is, shall we? MIKE UNDERWOOD: I have a lot of favorite bits in Geekomancy – weaving geek language into conversation, Geekomancy as a literalization of the power of
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Would you like to know about the giant anachronism that spans two chapters in Glamour in Glass? I thought you would. While I was researching Without a Summer, the next book in the series, I discovered an interesting thing. I’d done the seating arrangements wrong in Glamour in Glass. And not just a little wrong. Completely,
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I am in Grand Haven, MI to record Seanan McGuire’s latest October Daye novel, Ashes of Honor. We got through page 128 today and I am a little bit fried. So how did I handle that? I went and had a massage. Trust me, after a day spent even a little bit as Toby, I needed
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It’s no secret that I like Dan Wells’s writing. A lot. So I was nervous about The Hollow City because I had high expectations. He totally lived up to them. We talk about the writing process on Writing Excuses all the time. Today, Dan is going to tell you about his favorite bit. DAN WELLS: I
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If you are interested in what went into Glamour in Glass we talk about it at great length in the new episode of Writing Excuses. In fact, the only time you’ll hear me go into this much detail is when I’m addressing bookgroups or in one-on-one conversation where I know the other person has read the
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I don’tthink it’s so much toaskfor my spacebar to work consistently. I mean, really. Ifit didn’t work all the time,then it would beeasier to consign the keyboard to oblivion.Banging on it seems to help, but,as you can see,not always. I’vecleaned out the keyboard andthere are no visible obstructions. It does notmakewritingany easier. Later,I will return
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So… I collect folding furniture and have a fascination with metamorphic furniture. This mechanical table is a delight of compact ingenuity. Other girls want ponies. Me? Want. Want, want, want. Please? Hat-tip to Jane Austen’s World
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Want a copy of Glamour in Glass? The lovely folks at Bewitched Bookworms are giving away a copy. One of the things that I enjoy about their reviews is that these are dual reviews so you get to see two reviewers responding at the same time. Here’s an excerpt. Bottom Line Pushy: Action and drama combine into
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