So, there’s this story I wrote a while back — a really fun one, I think, which got some very kind rejections but not yet a home. And there’s a market, with a respected name and a long history, and maybe some recent troubles. This market looked like a good fit for this story. So […]
My reading at Readercon went very well. Thank you to everyone who dropped by; I’m greatly encouraged by your reaction to the scene I read. I hope that my attempt to do voices for it didn’t confuse you too much. That piece was the opening scene from my novella “Claudius Rex”, which (under the title […]
I’m just finishing up cramming snacks, pens, and changes of underclothes into my duffel bag, and getting ready to head down to Readercon 23! This will be my second year attending, after having a blast last year. Those of you skimming the program may have come across this gem: 30. Noon NH Group Reading: Codex […]
Around this time two years ago (as I commemorated last year) I started submitting short fiction in earnest and except for a few dry spells, have not stopped. Except for November (during which time I was working on a novella) I have submitted at least one story each month for the last year: 53 stories. […]
OK, I’ve finished hacking at Conan Doyle’s masterpiece! I’ve uploaded the result, which I edited with Word’s Track Changes turned on, if you care to have a read. (Study in Scarlet Chapter 1 edited) So, what did I actually do? More or less what I decided last time: Shortened by about 200 words (roughly 10% […]
In my last post I proposed an exercise in editing/revision: edit the first chapter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes book, “A Study in Scarlet”. I’ve now read through the chapter a couple times, and here’s my thinking about it. (I’ll post under the cut for those who are thinking of doing this, but […]
I have struggled over the past few years with honing my revision skills. I don’t have that much text to work with, and one of my problems is that I’m too close to it. I get some practice with folks whose work I read to critique, but it’s kind of rude to dig in and […]
So, most of the people who come to this blog are writers — in the parlance of people who create nothing but billing fictions, “creators of content”. Many people in our shoes are worried about piracy; about people taking copies of our stories and other work, and making them available for free without our permission […]
2011 has been an exciting year for me as a writer. I had my first fiction sale, my first podcast sale, and went to my first convention (Boskone). I won a Codex contest, and did respectably well in another. I signed my first autographs, at Readercon. I bought way too many fountain pens. In terms […]
Here’s a quick one for you, apropos of the holiday. Lots of people have drawn this connection before, but I’m not sure too many of them really considered how deep it goes. Enjoy!
