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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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