From the Archive – Respect the Editor
I’ve always said as a writer that I never want to get so big that I’m not edited. I discovered early on in my writer life the value of a good editor, and I only hope that my ego never gets so big that I think I couldn’t benefit from help. Since I’ve been supplementing […]
Writer’s Blog – Wheaton’s Law Revisited and ApolloCon
So, ApolloCon 2010 rapidly approaches – as in, we leave in less than 48 hours. I’m looking forward to it. But as with any convention approaching, it sparks my brain to things like packing and professionalism. Yes, when it comes to writing, it always seems to come back to professionalism, doesn’t it? I’ve been reading […]
Works In Progress
Okay, so I’m down to basically my last notebook for catching up of new material. This catching up project still has quite the ways to go, but I’m progressing (and there’s still some editing clean up work to do). I feel good about what’s been accomplished this week. Both the novel projects are DEFINITELY novel […]
Writerly Post – Getting Back on the Horse – or Wagon
Hey, look at me go, I’m doing my post a touch early this week. Yay! So, as a writer – and in the interest of full disclosure – I’ve mentioned I’ve fallen off my wagon of being a consistently productive writer. I’ve fallen so far off my wagon that even my subconscious got into the […]
From the Archive – FenCon V
See I told you this went back a couple of years… I debated about adding this one, but an archive is all of them, and it fits with talking about Soonercon earlier this week. Enjoy… FenCon V is rapidly approaching. FenCon V runs October 3-5, 2008 in Dallas, TX. It is the largest fan-run, literary […]
Glory, Hallelujah…Progress
As I’ve mentioned (a lot) the last couple of months have been stupid busy and exhausting. I have gotten some writing done but not a lot. And most of that has been piddling with old plot bunnies to see if there’s life in any of them – what there was was no life in me […]
Writerly Post – Writers and Dignity
We don’t need no stinkin’ dignity… I’ve just returned from SoonerCon in Oklahoma City. Except for one weird thing – they didn’t do autographing sessions at all, don’t know why – this was the best run, most fun SoonerCon I’ve been to. And the kicker? The hotel did not try to kill me this year. […]
The End Is Nigh…And New Beginnings
Tomorrow is the final day for Scarborough Renaissance Festival. It’s a bittersweet time, since it’s like Summer Camp for me. We don’t do the “circuit” so we don’t travel with these folks. We’re vendors so we don’t spend two months rehearsing with the performers. I love that a lot are on Facebook and Twitter so […]
StrangeWords Articles and Change
I want to thank any and all of you who’ve been reading my weekly StrangeWords.net articles. I’ve enjoyed writing them over the last ~two years. Now it’s time for some changes. (Though not in the sense of Impending Doom kind of way – except for one aspect.) For a good chunk of the time that […]