Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley #6 – The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway #5 – The Writer’s Art, James Kilpatrick #4 – […]
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Top 10 Influences: #3 – The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley #6 – The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway #5 – The Writer’s Art, James Kilpatrick #4 – […]
Read More ...#4 – Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop I by Barry B. Longyear
#4 – Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop I by Barry B. Longyear Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley #6 – The Old Man and the Sea, […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #6 & #5 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway/The Writer’s Art by James Kilpatrick
Top 10 Influences: #6 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway #5 – The Writer’s Art by James J. Kilpatrick Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #7 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Top 10 Influences: #7 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko #7 – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley There are those who say they hated reading […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #8 – Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Top 10 Influences: #8 – Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells #8 – Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko I know, I know. This is not a single book. Sue me. When I […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau
Top 10 Influences: #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Ron’s Top 10 Influences #10 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott #9 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells I remember reading three books by H.G. Wells when I was a kid. The Time Machine was a fun book. […]
Read More ...Top 10 Influences: #10
Amy Sterling Casil recently pointed the “give us the top 10 books that influenced you” finger at me. I’m really glad she did, because until then I had seen the meme running around but hadn’t really thought about it in any great detail, and when you really take a minute to think about it the […]
Read More ...“a sort of aesthetic trilogy”
When I talk to newer writers in particular, but sometimes even more experienced ones, the idea of writing seems to always focus on the words. By that I mean that they worry about their grammar and punctuation, or whether they have the right vocabulary, or have meticulously chosen the exact perfect word in the exact […]
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