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Time To Kill My Darlings
Novel in progress (Photo credit: MarkPritchard) I wrote yesterday about the editing process, and I’m going to write about it again today. A little mini-theme for this week. I hesitated in writing the...
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Working On My Unpublishable Novel
Cover of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter For the past two months, I have been working on getting to a “final draft” of a novel (with a break between drafts to write a short story). I put “final” in...
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Writing Out Of Character: Men Writing Women
For some reason this week, I’ve been thinking about how writers write characters unlike themselves. White writers writing African American characters. Middle-class writing poor. Northerners writing...
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A Fiction Teaser
A couple of years ago, on a blog far, far away, I participated in a blog hop where we each had to produce a short piece of fiction in a genre outside our norm. I drew historical fiction. Since my old...
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What I’m Reading
I’m currently reading Pure, by Julianna Baggott. In a change of pace for me, I’m reading a science fiction novel. Of the three broad speculative genre categories (horror, fantasy, and science...
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March Blog Chain
I’m participating in the March blog chain over at Absolute Write — more info, if you are interested, can be found here. Basically, a bunch of writers sign up to post blog posts based upon a specified...
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What Scares Me . . .
“Write what you know” is common advice given to writers, and it generally makes a lot of sense. For those who write horror or darker fiction, however, that advice is often modified to “Write what...
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What I’m Reading: Life After Life
I’m currently reading LIFE AFTER LIFE, by Kate Atkinson. I’m about half-way through, and I hesitate to say anything because I don’t want to ruin even the slightest detail for anyone. It’s that good....
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Am I A “Four A” Writer?
In baseball, there’s a concept called the AAAA player, or 4A player — a player who does very well at the AAA level (the highest minor league level), but fails at the major league level. Sometimes I...
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When a Book Disappoints You
Over vacation, I was able to read quite a few books (10, I think), including some really great works: SAVE YOURSELF, by Kelly Braffet, THE WICKED GIRLS, by Alex Marwood, and THE DINNER, by Herman Koch...
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