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Many writers suggest one shouldn’t read in the same genre one’s writing. I’ve never followed that advice, because the SF and Fantasy genre is just too big, too varied, that I don’t need to eschew the genre—it’s difficult to even compare one’s work against another’s. For instance, when I was writing the Major Ariane Kedros […]
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This year I’m flabbergasted (I wish I was British, so I can use “gobsmacked”) to be nominated, again, for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) Writer of the Year. And again I don’t feel worthy, when I look at the other nominees: Robin D. Owens, author of fantasy/romance and winner of many, many awards. Really, […]
A couple years after I entered the Air Force, my boyfriend and I went to a new gourmet restaurant in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. We were celebrating something (I can’t remember what) and the restaurant was the fanciest and most expensive one we’d ever tried. This was where I was introduced to menus that have […]
Try reading these two articles, one after the other: Unpaid jobs: The new normal? and Jobless Innovation?. Think about what they have in common (joblessness—not titles that end in question marks). Are you starting to get uneasy? Now I want you to think back to your college Macroeconomics classes—the ones that covered supply-versus-demand—and try to […]
It sounds like I’m talking about making drinks. Unfortunately, I’m talking about the first few pages of my current work in progress. I have “alpha readers” who are awarded the questionable distinction of reading my early drafts (these are not “first readers,” who see polished and full manuscripts). The problem is, my alpha readers haven’t […]
Every writer of online content, particularly bloggers, have been bludgeoned with the maxim “content is king.” Behind that pithy statement are exhortations to create content that is informing, engaging, entertaining, timely, helpful, inspirational, detailed, and readable (ack! I’m going to exceed my daily buzzword capacity). All of this sounds like quality, not quantity, rules the […]