Archive for February, 2006
Death and Taxes
–Bev Vincent
Not a terribly sexy topic this month, I’m afraid, but perhaps a practical one. If you are a professional writer, you are probably in the process of scrounging around for all the receipts and records that represent your income and outflow for the past year. Then comes the task of putting them in some [...]
"Oh yeah?" stuff
by Thomas “Sully” Sullivan
Two columns into my contributions at Storytellersunplugged.com and I’m already writing a “loose ends” piece. But, as it turns out, some interesting feedback has come in as well as a head’s up offer.
First up was this thought-provoking piece from Ed Picard, a surfer-philosopher-musician from Ventura, California, and the husband of writer [...]
Ten Rules Worth Considering
I’m closing in on the end of my latest novel and as always during this stage, I’ve begun to think about the editing process in earnest. When I first started out I would edit each piece of work as I went along. This was both time consuming and frustrating. My creative side [...]
Storytellers Unplugged
Storytellers Unplugged
So, let’s see: You’ve listened to me rant on about reviews, characters, pacing, setting, dialogue, body language, the time it takes a story to come out from idea to publication and the lack of legitimate rules to follow. What’s next?
How about emotion? Not just the emotions of the characters, but also the emotions of [...]
Plain English?
The Plain English Campaign, heard of it?
Langauge - you have to love it or you wouldn’t be here, reading this, right? And hey, we all use it and abuse it regularly. I’m an abuser - I frequently make up my own words - my favourite one to date is “necrofarious” which is all about [...]
An (A) (R)Evolutionary Wishlist
I’ve got a few thoughts on the nature of this business and the folks who happen to be a part of it. I’ve got some things I’d personally like to see changed, and while I’m not sure they ever will, I thought it’d be fun to write them down and toss them out here [...]
What Do You Want To Do? The Creative Enigma
by David Niall Wilson (Guest Spotting it)
Since Kelley was unable to post this month, and since, being OCD about anything resembling a deadline, I already had my next post ready and have three more weeks to replace it, I thought I’d go ahead and post this. Hope you all don’t mind hearing from me [...]
Apology: Take 1
I knew it would happen sooner or later, but have managed to dodge it so far. Yep, I’m posting my first “sorry I can’t blog” apology. I have an editing deadline Friday and, just as I was finishing up this week, I suddenly realized a solution to some minor niggling plot concerns. [...]
Outsourcing Today’s Blog
Sorry gang — I’ve been feeling pretty badly lately, and just couldn’t get my thoughts straight enough to write any kind of coherent essay. So I’m going to use this space to redirect to you to what is, in my opinion, a blog that should be on EVERY genre author’s list of bookmarks:
Ed Gorman’s Gormania.
http://edgormanrambles.blogspot.com [...]
Getting To Know Them, Part Two
My apologies for having missed this date last month. A part of me wishes that I had some wonderfully complex, even tragic, excuse to offer — my goldfish died and I was numb with grief, the CIA discovered my brief exchange of pancake recipes with Castro from the 1980s and I have been running for [...]
