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I just found Flogging the Quill thanks to Pat Loomis. This entry Story as River is about the right way to start a story, and is very interesting. Check it out!
I just found Flogging the Quill thanks to Pat Loomis. This entry Story as River is about the right way to start a story, and is very interesting. Check it out!
I’ve heard this is what an agent’s life is like. What do you think?
Ever wonder what the publishing world is going to look like in five years? Agent Chip MacGregor has given it some thought. Here’s something else I’ve heard about, the Espresso Book Machine–a printing press that can be set up anywhere and print and bind a library-quality paperback book in just a few minutes, while the…
that the guard now has a name. Hereinafter he shall be known as Chiioke. I gave in this morning and re-did the outline (again). It’s something like its fourth incarnation, and there are some serious holes coming in the climatic scenes. I know who all has to play the game for those scenes, and what…
I’m making reasonably steady progress on Tempest, though not as rapid as I’d have liked. Still, it seems that it’s better to think a bit here and there than to rewrite/rewrite/rewrite. Of course I’ll probably still have to! It might be that this story just didn’t have as long to percolate, so there wasn’t a…
Have you ever read that one author whose characters are pretty much the same people on repeat, but with (hopefully) different names? So all the stories become as much blended puree, too, because the same people will keep doing the same things. After all, it’s all the same genre. Exactly how many ways can an…
On Monday morning I had 96 index cards laid out in Scrivener, a super-marked-up Word document with thousands of comment bubbles…and a blank document. On Friday morning, the Scrivener file looks pretty much the same, with a few minor tweaks. All the comment bubbles are still intact. The third item, the once-blank document, has undergone…