At Neil Gaiman’s weblog someone asked: But all the advice I’ve found says to stick to one point of view, anything else annoys editors. If you’re a first time author, do publishers just reject books like this? If that was the case I’d be fucked. I move around POVs every couple thousand words or so…
A Random Encounter in a College Bathroom Where I out Myself As Atheist
So at lunch today I nip into the bathroom and am standing in front of the urinal, like most men, minding my own business, staring dead straight ahead, when someone comes and stand next to me to do likewise. So far so good. But then I hear the dreaded ‘throat clear.’ Oh man, this dude…
My Favorite Rejection Letter for a Short Story of Mine
I’m 17 years old, a sophomore in college, and I’ve just begun my 100 rejections a year or bust routine, severed all connections with writers who haven’t sold anything and were giving me bad advice, and started a weblog at geocities (yeah, I’ve been blogging/journaling for 7 years and I’m not famous like slashdot or…
How Writing Late at Night Helps Me Believe in the Fantastic
I prefer to work late at night. As I slide towards sleep, and hover in that odd zone, I could begin to somewhat believe in a ghost that I’m writing about. My imagination is much more likely to engulf my consciousness. I can, between 11pm and 8am, convince myself on a level that I can’t…
We Have to Better About Writing the Other
I’ve had some writers who say to me ‘I’m white, I grew up in (insert location here), I know nothing about other cultures/races/societies, I’m not as ‘lucky’ as you are to have experienced these other things.’ For this I’d like to refer them to this artice by Nisi Shawl: Transracial Writing for The Sincere. I…
Thoughts on Being Paper Free
In Greg Van Eekhout’s latest journal entry He talks about a really nice notebook that he just got. Nice pens, nice notebooks, are also linked in his comments area. Which got me thinking about my own writing tool journey… I think the only reason I wrote on paper was b/c it was during class and…
The Most Essential Gift For an SF/F Writer
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector.” – Ernest Hemingway To which I would say: “The most essential gift for an SF/F writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit creator.” I like creating all sorts of neat shit. Right now I’m still working on the synopsis/proposal for a new…