Archive for the 'About Writing' Category
Rainforest Writers, Day 2
We had a great talk by Susan Mathews on character and then another by James Van Pelt on endings. It’s fun to listen to writer’s teach – we all approach it so differently!
And of course,being with sf writers, the afternoon walk was full of talk about the atmosphere and axial tilt and the Cambrian day [...]
Rainforest Writers Workshop Day 1
I am on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, and right at this moment I am in a dark bar with about a dozen writers. There are a handful of community people as well, and much chattering and laughter from both groups. This is the Rainforest Writer’s Village workshop, sponsored by Patrick Swenson of Fairwood [...]
Our Books Have Returned
And what a silly weekend it was.
At least at the moment, my books are once again available at Amazon. They remain unavailable on the Kindle.
I sell content. I like to call that content stories. In general, I don’t control availability or format or price.
I want to wake up in a world where the stories I [...]
Writing in a Comfortable Place
In general, writing is pushing an edge for me – a new technology, a new type of character, an attempt at a new voice. But sometimes it’s more like a hot cocoa by the fire. I spent years grabbing the newest Mercedes Lackey books from the shelf as soon as they came out. When I [...]
Animal Stories
My futurismic column for this month deals with animal intelligence –it’s entitled “What are the Animals Becoming?” I just popped over to Nancy Kress’s blog to see how she’s doing, and it turns out she just blogged on the same topic (or at least mentioned the prevalence of stories about genetically altered animals in her [...]
Release Day for Wings of Creation!
Pardon the happy little post in advance. It’s a gray day here is Seattle – with a touch of pink sunrise still in the window – but I’m hoping for a good one.
A lot of writing is work. By the time a book comes out, I’m two books or more past it, and living in [...]
How is publishing like the tech industry?
Yesterday, I listened to the Sofanauts podcast #30 while I was pulling out spent daises and mushed iris leaves and planting crocus and narcissus. The conversation is an hour and half long argument where everybody is right.
The moderator was Tony C. Smith of Starship Sofa, guests lined up as Jeff Vandermeer and Jeremy Tolbert on [...]
Authors and Covers
We have no say.
Here is a copy of the cover for an anthology I have a story in. It’s coming out on the 6th – which is next Tuesday. It’s either so bad that it’s good or it’s really, really bad. I can see it on shelves right before Halloween, though.
It’s being considered on the [...]
Two things that make SF stories well-loved….
SF Signal runs a mind meld periodically where they gather a bunch of us sf writers and ask us a question (which I usually find on Twitter. This week, they included me a two-part post about favorite short stories. I thought I’d talk about two of them a little bit more here.
One is the most [...]
Getting ready for a week away
I get to go be a writer for a week. When you’re balancing hats like I am (CIO/writer/futurist), getting a bit of a break to be any one of them alone for a week is a fine and rare treat. I will be on the coast in Lincoln City, Oregon, with the dog, a pile [...]
