Archive for February, 2008
T-minus . . .
This post is late–well, later than I like, anyway–because I am currently under internet radio silence while I try to rewrite Corambis for a March 31st deadline. I check my mail (and icanhascheezburger) once a day, and other than that, I am head down in the book. And yesterday, I did not say to myself, [...]
I NAME THEE SIR BRYLCREEM
Wayne Allen Sallee
I had thought about calling this month’s entry “Butcher’s Raindance.” Sounds like a good story title, right? Even though I have no idea what it might be about…yet. Is it a ritual done by a serial killer, the dance being the way he sanitizes his crime scenes? Is it [...]
Our Writing Is Not Of Your World
Imagine, if you will, a movie.
A really dreadful movie.
A movie wherein no cut in the trailer lasts more than three seconds, wherein explosions and car chases and wirework kung fu abound. A movie that doesn’t go more than five minutes in between action sequences, in part to hide the fact that you could fit the [...]
Remembering Radio
By Janet Berliner
Since I, too, just finished and turned in a novel, I considered writing about post-book depression, but as two of my fellows have already well covered that issue this month, I decided to find something new.
A few weeks ago, I saw the movie “Talk to Me,” the story of Washington, D.C. DJ Ralph [...]
What is best in life?
For me, one of the finest moments of writing comes when crashing through the wall.
Or cracking open a Faberge egg to find what’s inside is far more valuable than what is glittery and sweet on the outside.
Or . . . after a long spell of grappling with nothingness, of putting down [...]
What Dreams May Come
by Alex
I always tell the students in my writing workshops that if they’re not writing down the dreams they have, every morning, they’re working way too hard.
I’m starting to do interviews about THE PRICE, which comes out this week, and I got that question yesterday: “Where did the story come from?” And because you tend [...]
On Failing
First, I’d like to thank James Moore for covering my ass on the 23rd of last month. As always, his contribution was excellent. It’s pretty much a given that anything with Mr. Moore’s name on the byline will be good. If you haven’ had the opportunity to read one of his novels [...]
Where There Are No Rules . . .
by Richard Steinberg
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t,” Mark Twain
The Duke Of Oy is not only the best writer I’ve ever read (no exaggeration) but is also great looking, charming, intelligent, funny, profound, and oft times the only friend I’ve had that always [...]
Mutating Novelizations
A week and a half ago, I got an e-mail from my friends at Paradox Entertainment. Among other things, they own the rights to the complete library of Robert E. Howard’s works, and I edited an Age of Conan line of novels for them and Ace Books in the past.
Last year, I wrote a novelization [...]
HELLO DEMONIC STRANGER
–Justine Musk
So here’s the thing.
I sat down yesterday to write my essay for this site. I had a topic. I had a sense of where the piece would start, where it would end up, and how it might go in-between. But when it came game-time, I realized:
I got nuthin’.
Could be I’m a [...]
