Archive for September, 2007
Miracles in the Night
Here at Storytellers Unplugged we started a semi-traditional practice last year of posting fiction during October to celebrate Halloween. When we started out, there was a predominance of horror writers in the group - we are much more diverse now. Some of us will still be posting fiction this month, and for my [...]
What Not To Do With Writer’s Block
Sarah Monette
So I said, back in July, that writer’s block probably deserved a post of its own. And since I’m having no luck coming up with a better topic for September (self-reflexively, I am experiencing a kind of writer’s block), let’s just run with it and see where we get.
The first thing not to [...]
The Greater Good
I should be thankful I am in the Central time zone, this way I have an extra hour to poke away at this keyboard. This may change in the very near future. My one-fingered click clack, I mean. I’ll stay in the Central time zone, probably die here. Not in the suburbs, somewhere back in [...]
Your Manuscript Was A Hamster, And Your Editor Smelled of Elderberries
Last time out, I discussed the ins and outs of taking criticism and doing something with it besides letting it amp your blood pressure to the point where blood jets out of your eyes. It only seems fair and sensible, then, to flip the conversation over this month and talk about critiquing, and ways to [...]
Caveat Author
by Janet Berliner
This will be a very short blog, not because I’m lazy but because it’s something I feel strongly about, something that needs to be said in a short and pointed manner.
We write and talk a lot about success–the yearning for it, the fear of it and the acceptance of it when it comes. [...]
Zeus’s Nod
By Stan Ridgley
What a grandiose metaphor! And I fear that it is far too grandiose for the subject to which it is harnessed.
Especially as I am a quasi-neophyte in attacking the subject matter . . . which is why I wait for a glowering Zeus to nod at me.
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ROLE MODELS
Forgive me, but for limits of time and imagination, I’m modifying a recent entry from my own blog, but I hope it’s relevant to how we — or at least I — create characters, and defy legal disclaimers. Read on…
At Amazon.com, one reviewer of my novel DEADSTOCK said that the book’s female soldier Thi Gonh [...]
Mind vs. Movies – A Clockwork Orange
Please excuse the brevity of this essay. I would have liked to add more on this topic, which is an important one to me, but the past week has been a little chaotic, preparing my stepson, who has lived with me for twelve years, to move to his father’s house in Wyoming.
While at [...]
The Conclusions Of Passion
By Richard Steinberg
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration,” Pearl S. Buck
I’ve been incredibly gifted by my friendships. Ilario [...]
The Sharpening of Deadlines
Like most folks, I’m inherently lazy on some level. When there’s something I should be doing, I’d often rather be playing games, running around with my kids, or catching up with my wife. I’d be great at being independently wealthy.
Of course, I’m not, and I’m a full-time writer/game designer, so I drag myself to the [...]
