Archive for March, 2006
The Fine Art of Hindsight, In Theory & Practice
David Niall WilsonI had about a dozen plans for what I would write this month. Some of the words and phrases were written in my mind. Some of them ended up in my journal, and one nicely ordered set became my column for http://www.chizine.com/. Then, as so often happens, inspiration came to me in the [...]
Bilge
Okay, well, better late than never. Maybe.
Since Jeff Mariotte was apparently looking over my shoulder and swiped the subject of collaborating right out from under my keyboard, I am hereby scrapping that essay (fortunately, I wasn’t far into it) and offering something altogether different. Don’t do it again, Jeff!
As most readers here probably know, I [...]
Write What You Oh, No
One of the hoariest cliches in writing instruction is the dreaded ‘write what you know.’ This is, of course, only the roughest of guidelines. After all, one would certainly hope that H.P. Lovecraft was not in fact writing what he knew (innumerable pastiches to the contrary), and if Terry Pratchett is writing what he knows, [...]
Signings
– Janet Berliner
I’ve finished a new book, SESSIONS, which will shortly be on its way to New York. It’s a collaboration with my friend and colleague Melanie Tem. I met her at my very first convention. She introduced me to Ed Bryant and I read a manuscript she had just finished and took [...]
Writer of a Thousand Faces
by Jeffrey Thomas
I know a talented young writer who once admitted on a message board that he was not ready to write a story from the point of view of a woman. He seemed to feel he could not do so with authenticity. I thought this was odd, coming from someone who feels they can [...]
Possession: Demons I Have Known
by Richard Steinberg
“Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin [...]
Sometimes It Takes Two
By Jeff Mariotte
My first (published) novel, Gen13: Netherwar, was a collaboration with Christopher Golden. Since then I’ve also collaborated on novels with Nancy Holder, Scott Ciencin, and Steve Niles (and on nonfiction with Nancy Holder and Maryelizabeth Hart, with whom I have also collaborated on children and marriage). In addition to these books, [...]
Knowing When To Send It Out
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The End of Books: The Bemis Condition
By Weston Ochse
There’s that famous episode of Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith at the end of the world; do you remember this one? Of course you do. Anyone who loves books can relate to that episode, much less writers, publishers and fans. The episode is ‘Time Enough at Last’ and refers [...]
When Is Enough Too Much?
As a writer, you’re given a certain amount of creative license when penning a story, and although I appreciate that freedom, I find myself getting pretty anal when it comes to certain details.
For example, when I wrote about mental institutions, I could have fostered an eerie enough building and location from my imagination to pass [...]
