One of the links that I posted as something to consider was A Mist of Vague Cliches by K. Tempest Bradford. Now, Tempest and I were in a writing group together and the generic European setting was one of her pet peeves. So, when I started work on this story “On the Edge of Dying” […]
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I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about Justine Larbalestier’s post, “Why my protagonists aren’t white” and the fellow said that he rarely describes his characters, unless it’s important, so that the reader is free to imagine them at will. I can understand this choice, because I’ve done it myself and for the
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While looking up a detail about period pianos for Chapter Four of Glamour in Glass, I chanced across a comparison of a 19th century piano and a modern piano both playing the same piece, which was eye-opening in terms of the difference in sound. There’s no reason to convey that in the novel, but it’s
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. . I’m heading up to Montreal for Anticipation, the 2009 WorldCon. Here is my convention schedule. Thursday Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and Writing 14:00, P-513B What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writing short-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networking or a new way to write? Can tweets
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Writing Chapter 3 went fairly smoothly, but when I got to Chapter 5 I realized that I’d made a geography error in Chapter 4. To fix that involved going back and laying in some small details in the first two chapters and rewriting the last two pages of Chapter 3 in order to lead in
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I got sort of crazy amounts of writing done over the weekend, considering that I was at a con. Chapter 1 had given me fits, because I had some historical figures on stage. I’d hit a roadblock because I felt like I hadn’t done enough research, so I went off, did that and came back.
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I just finished Chapter 1 of Glamour in Glass and am starting to dive into Chapter 2. With Shades of Milk and Honey, I posted the first three chapters in the clear as I wrote them and then password protected the rest. All you get today is the first line. Why? Because the third line
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Forgive me for squeeing all over myself but I’ve been reading Asimov’s since I was a teen and I just had just had the dream experience. I went into the bookstore and bought a copy of the magazine with my name on the cover. My name. On the cover of Asimov’s. It’s my first sale
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Subterranean is running a 50% off sale and one of the titles is my collection “Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.” We’ve been receiving a ton of requests that we run one of our 50% off sales, which we haven’t done in quite some time. Tim and I have carved a little time out of
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Friday, I turned in the full outline for Glamour in Glass, the sequel to Shades of Milk and Honey. I wrote it differently than I’ve done the outlines for the other novels, which tended to be linear. This time, I set down the scenes/chapters that I knew had to be there — about fifteen —
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. . Hey come down to the KGB bar tonight at 7:00 pm for the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series to hear Brian Francis Slattery and me read. As an added enticement, I’m including a very short monologue with a puppet. Brian is bringing a bass, a violinist and fiction! Should be fun tonight.
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If you are looking for a YA novel, or something rich and plummy to read on your own, may I recommend, Catherynne M. Valente’s new online novel, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland. Chapter 1: Exeunt, on a Leopard Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her father’s house, where
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I call this my time-traveling Grandma story, which isn’t a spoiler, since the story opens with her standing in a time machine. I based the main character on my own grandmother. When Patrick Nielsen Hayden bought it for Tor.com, he asked me to change the character’s name. Why? Because her name was Elois, just like
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