Two months ago I was in Detroit and sitting on a panel at ConFusion when someone had just asked the question. “Can you see a time when writers can make their living on short fiction?” I replied (paraphrasing here) that yes, I could envision that time, and that is now. I don’t think any of […]
Read More ...Category Archives: Daily Writing
Damsel in Distress
I’ve mentioned before the my daughter, Brigid is a writer. I know you’ll get tired of that as a lead-in, but hey … it works for this post, so I figure you’ll just have to deal with it. What I haven’t talked about here is that, as luck would have it, her husband (hence my […]
Read More ...The super-secret key to ultra-productivity
Today I wore my Slitherin shirt to work, researched demons and Chicago in the 1920s, wrote a couple thousand words, and listened to Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday. So, yeah. Pretty typical. When I left the day job a year and a quarter ago, I remember people asking what a writer does all day. I […]
Read More ...Nearly a dozen bits on “art”
Yesterday I ran over to John Scalzi’s site and read through a collection of posts he noted as his “Best of the Year.” If you’re one of the six people in the world who doesn’t read his site, you should wander over there. It’s good stuff. Afterward, I scanned through my own posts this year. […]
Read More ...Changing gears
Everything is very strange, now. Yesterday I finally finished ALL of the bulk of the work of producing all eight volumes of Saga of the God-Touched Mage. Really. Completely. Well, except that there’s a little work left to do to insert covers as they are completed, but the rest is done and the inclusion of […]
Read More ...You must have really thick skin
“You must have really thick skin.” That was a comment from a friend of mine recently. He was talking about one review in particular that has been posted against Glamour of the God-Touched. Before I go too far here, let me state a thing or two. First, I’m quite pleased with the response to this […]
Read More ...Entering the Home Stretch
This morning I proofed the first half of Lord of the Freeborn, which is the seventh book of the series that I might have mentioned around here a time or two. Hopefully, I’ll finish that today. Then tomorrow will be spent proofing Lords of Existence, which is the eighth and final book in the series […]
Read More ...Top 5 Standard Techniques of Writing Avoidance
Not that I’ve done any of these today, but … #5 – Reading about writing and pretending that it’s just as good #4 – Doing “more important things” like laundry #3 – Helping people who are Wrong On The Internet #2 – Checking your paltry sales numbers on Amazon, et al (*) #1 – Writing […]
Read More ...Blog Tour (finally!)
A few months back I was graciously invited to join a blog tour by Brandon Crilly. Please visit his blog here to read a bit about his writing and writing practice. What am I working on? Oh, my goodness. Among the reasons I am so danged tardy uploading this note because I’m just totally swamped […]
Read More ...On being the last one to know
So, yeah, I’ve been playing with a little bit of a new look to the site. # It is cliché to say that a writer is often the last person to know what it is that they’ve actually written. Sometimes you hear this when a writer says they don’t know if what they’ve done is […]
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