I am not attending WorldCon (AKA Anticipation) this year. Last year was great, and I met a lot of really interesting new people, and got to meet some people in the flesh for the first time like John Joseph Adams (whose collection The Living Dead was nominated for a World Fantasy Award this week! Congratulations […]
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On Richness
Lately, I’ve been trying to identify where my writing really differs from the stuff that’s great, great writing. There are a hell of a lot of places, but I’ve fixated for a while now on this concept of richness. The stories that *really* blow me away exude information and confidence. They are full of a […]
Keeping an Ideas File
When I first started writing seriously, I kept a little text file on my desktop where I would rapidly jot down ideas for the premises of stories. Eventually, this turned into a notebook that I tried and failed to carry around. Then it turned into a collection of random documents on Google Docs. It’s current […]
Revising Short Fiction is for Suckers
I’ve heard a lot of different opinions on the subject of revision over the years. The one that has stuck with me was the opinion of, I think it was Heinlein. This author wrote one draft, dropped it in the mail, and never looked back. I don’t know what his reasons for this were, but […]