I had the opportunity to talk to several writers this past week, which is always great fun. As it does on occasion, the conversation turned to dealing with the wild disparity between the Critical Voice and the Creative Brain, which I’m naming that way because the Critical Voice can sometimes get mouthy and the Creative […]

Like with most things this past six months, I’ve been behind schedule in doing this little review. Luckily, I’ve been prompted by seeing several End-of-Year reviews posted by other friends who are writers. So here we are. Without getting into specific dollars and cents, it’s time to check in on how I’m doing on the […]

A couple years back now (because time does fly) Brigid gave me a stack of old back-issue SF magazines. I love these things. It’s always fun to read fiction from some time back. Some of it is dated, of course. In fact, a lot of it, really. Science Fiction moves on both culturally and, well, […]

Many of you know that we lost my dad earlier this year, and that the process of dealing with the aftereffects has taken a lot of my energy the past six months. Such is life in the modern age. With some luck that process is coming toward its end, though. And there’s been a little […]

If you’ve followed along, you know I’ve been chatting about Heinlein’s Rules. They are good, and important, and everything else you can say about them. They are also a little dated in that they presume the existence of an editor, but we can sidestep that a bit. Or, at least I sidestepped them a bit […]

Yes, I missed a day. Such are the weird bits of life, right? But here I am today, ready to dig into the fourth of Heinlein’s rules—a process I’ve been going through expressly to question why it’s always rule #3 (“don’t rewrite”) that gets all the angst from most writers. Specifically, back when I read […]

So here I am, at the third of Heinlein’s rules. I did the first rule a few days back, and the second yesterday. As I noted yesterday, the original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong […]

For reasons that I noted in yesterday’s post, I’ve found myself writing a mini-series about Heinlein’s rules. The original premise that got me going had to do with the idea that the controversy surrounding these rules is often placed (or always placed) in the wrong area. By that I mean writers gnash their teeth over […]

Yesterday I saw Dean Wesley Smith wrote about Heinlein’s rules again. This is a fairly normal thing for him. It’s kind of his shtick, for the lack of a better term. He’s known as a proponent of fast writing, and limited editing. At least that’s the rep, you know? That’s all good. I’ve been a […]

Getting excited for the launch of Outfield Magicked, book 3 of Brigid and my Fairies and Fastballs series!