Category: writing
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Repost: Slaying Dragons
There are writers—some very famous and successful ones—who don’t believe in writer’s block, who think it’s a sign of an amateur or someone who isn’t committed to their craft. To that, I say bollocks. (It’s one of my favorite words, so I try to fit it in wherever I can.)
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Coyote Con 2013: Join the Howl!
Are you like me and couldn’t afford the trip to Brighton for World Fantasy this year? Well, come join me at Coyote Con! What is Coyote Con, you ask? It’s a virtual convention for readers and writers of SFF, horror, and romance in all its flavors. What is a virtual convention? Well, first of all,…
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Fantasy Week on Here Be Magic
This week is Fantasy Week at HBM. Check out my post today on Epic Fantasy: Where’s the Love? and join the conversation.
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Women in SF&F Month at Fantasy Cafe
Check out what Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, has to say about women in epic fantasy on today’s Women in SF&F post.
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How’m I doin’?
On January 4, I resolved to do a number of things this year, most of them involving something I would accomplish weekly. So it’s been ten days. What have I done so far? Last blog post was 8 days ago, but I did two posts that week, and 8 is only one more than 7,…
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Resolving to resolve
Everyone is all about saying “I don’t make resolutions,” and “I don’t believe in resolutions” these days. Personally, I think that’s a copout. It says, “I can’t accomplish one single thing this year,” and ascribes to some kind of negative magical thinking that if you write it down, you’ll fail. Whatever. (Not trying to be…
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Terms and conditions
Last week, I was reading a YA novel that was a little dark, but had interesting characters and twists, and seemed to promise some redemption for the troubled MC as his character developed throughout the story. Then a violent sexual assault occurred out of nowhere, in fairly graphic detail, and I felt as if I’d…
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Coming up for air (and fire)
In the midst of my preparations for harakiri—er, I mean, deep in revision mode, I received today’s Shakespeare-a-Day sonnet, and it was just perfect for the section I was revising last night: Sonnet 45 The other two, slight air and purging fire, Are both with thee, wherever I abide; The first my thought, the other…
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Hey, what’s that in my coffee cup?
I’m guest blogging today on Cup o’ Porn, a site run by M/M erotica authors Marie Sexton and Heidi Cullinan that unabashedly celebrates a woman’s right to enjoy “men, and coffee, and porn, and sex, and wine, and music, and intelligence, and fun, and women, and really hot photos” and “how all that stuff is…