Category for all my writer-related stuff
You wrote something. It’s good. So good it amazes you. You wonder if you might actually be able to sell this, become an author. You want to show it off. You have a friend who is a published author. Here is why NOT to ask them to look at it. Read more…
In 2001, I saw the movie “AI” which was about a robot that was designed to fall in love with a human. The little robot boy bonds to his “mother” and then goes on an adventure which includes a magnificent Jude Law as a gigolo robot and… that’s not the Read more…
There’s a instinct in us as new writers, to tell the story completely. To tie up all the loose ends, say, or to make sure we describe not just how the characters get from the house to the restaurant, but how they get into the car. We want to be Read more…
Expletives are a shorthand for emotion, and modern American speech is peppered with them. I tried to remove “god” from my vocabulary a few years ago, since, as an atheist, I felt I was being disingenuous. I started saying “Gort” because I thought it was funny. You know, the super-powerful Read more…
As mentioned in my previous post on the year in review, it was a great year for me as a writer. My goal this year was to get my submission stats back up to where they were pre-pandemic, when I was averaging 167 submissions per year over the previous four Read more…
Honestly, I was gonna take a year off on this, but it is handy to look back on the year’s successes. What did I do this year? I got my first-ever Nebula and Hugo nominations! Got my first ever unsolicited invitation to be on a convention program! Got invited to Read more…
I believe in being open about money; how much you make isn’t a dirty secret, it’s something to share with others so we can know when we aren’t being treated equitably. To that end, I thought I should make a frank blog post about how much money I get for Read more…