James Maxey - Jawbone of an Ass
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Five things Lisa Shearin has learned about writing

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Novelist Lisa Shearin has posted the first of her writing articles based on my challenge. She starts with an article on how to approach you...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Five things Andy Remic has learned about writing

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In my last post, I challenged four other authors to blog about five things they've learned about writing. The first of these articles is...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

You Never Write Alone

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Most fiction writers write alone. Sure, you might occasionally go out to a coffee shop with a laptop or a notepad and scribble down a few l...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Embrace your demons

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This is perhaps the most presumptuous of these five essays. My first three articles were mostly a collection of writing techniques--build yo...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Momentum Matters!

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Momentum matters in two ways. First, momentum is important in drafting a story. Nothing has killed more of the stories I’ve started than sim...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The best way to write a good story is to first write a bad story

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This second bit of writing advice may also be obvious, but my personal experience tells me not everybody gets it. When I say that the best w...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Stories are made out of scenes; scenes are made out of nouns

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This post may fall into the category of "pretty darn obvious." Still, I've been participating in writer's groups and criti...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

Five things I've learned about writing

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I had a 12 hour drive back from World Fantasy and spent a good chunk of that time thinking about writing; not just my immediate projects, bu...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Sci-Fi Chick Winners, and off to World Fantasy

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The contest is over at Sci-Fi Chick, and I'm heading out right now to send a signed copy to a winner named Asara. See other winners at ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Too much soup

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With the weather finally turning cold, I went to the grocery store Thursday night and bought all the ingredients for chicken soup, the main ...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Dona Nova store now online!

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The classiest things in my house are the paintings on my wall by Dona Nova. Dona is one of my heroes, dedicating her life to art and contin...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Sci-Fi chick interview and giveaway.

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An interview of yours truly went live today over at the Sci Fi Chick . Tomorrow, she's announcing a drawing for a free autographed copy ...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Cancer on the Comics Page

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For the last several months, the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" has been treading into territory that arguably doesn't belong ...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Petty and cruel dictator

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One of the bigger political stories of the week was the visit to the US by Iranian prez Ahmadinijad. The university that invited him to spe...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Noah's Ark

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Among the news sites I like to visit, the most conservative site hands down is World Net Daily. They make the Drudgereport look positively ...
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Friday, August 31, 2007

Off to Dragon con

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i've inched my way down the eastern seaboard i am coming to Atlanta again yeah i came to the gates of the fabled pink city hungry, and t...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Naked Monkeys

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Last week, fellow Codexian Helena Bell asked, “Just curious: how did the monkey thing start?” To those unfamiliar with my larger body of wo...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Tidbits

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Wow, 16 days without a post here. What can I say? I've been furiously typing away on the new novel, plus setting up multiple promotion...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Trinoccon!

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This weekend I'll be a guest at Trinoccon in Raleigh. Here's my schedule: Fri. 6 PM, Ballroom I: MOD Age & Longevity in SF Fri....
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Deadstock

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So, in my earlier post about Readercon, I mentioned meeting Jeffrey Thomas, author of Deadstock, and a fellow member of the Solaris writing ...
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