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by Amanda S. Green Today's post is not the one I had planned on writing. However, I haven't finished researching the original topic. Second, this post is one that sort of goes along with Kate's wonderful series on the Writer's Toolbox. Think of it as the related hardware needed to finish the project. After you've... Continue Reading →
By Dan Hoyt Lately, I’ve been reading Regency romances. Why? Well, as a writer, it’s always a good thing to keep up with what’s selling to readers. Not that I’m targeting my audience, mind you, but I’d like to thing that someone out there might be interested in reading my work, and it helps to... Continue Reading →
I went to a wedding recently where the bride was Polynesian. There was a strong showing from her community, which had organised the wedding, as well as all sorts of islander culture - various traditional dances etc. The whole experience made me realise how different the culture was from our familiar western one. For a... Continue Reading →
by Kate Paulk As sort-of-kind-of promised, today's ramble is more or less on the subject of character. Plot will likely get involved too, because I'm an extreme pantser and my plots tend to build organically from the motivations and actions of my characters. I simply can't plot "by the numbers", as it were. Heck, I... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago, a male friend who wrote from a female POV got back a letter telling him this was unethical. Not just bad writing, mind – which knowing my friend it wouldn’t be – but wrong on a moral level. He couldn’t write women, because he wasn’t one. This worried me because I’m... Continue Reading →
To mix Peter Pan with the 70s Kung Fu show, the world is changing grasshopper - publishing is changing and we writers are having to make it up as we go along. So, for us it is second start on the right and ... Next weekend I'll be at Supanova in Sydney. When ever I... Continue Reading →
Well, I am clocking in from Continuum 7 -- or the death thereof (finally done after two hundred and panels....). For a small con it was very well done, and nothing major went wrong except for the plague con, which had 3 people drop out which as two of us were still there, and there... Continue Reading →
Posted by Amanda S. Green There's been a lot of news flying around the publishing world over the last few weeks. After a short bit of non-Borders news, it's back just like that bad penny. Publishers doing end runs around agents who suddenly want to be publishers and agent associations considering removing language that limits... Continue Reading →
Posted by Amanda S. Green Good morning, all. I fell down on the job -- literally and it hurt! -- this week and forgot to follow up with our guest blogger until it was too late. So, the floor is yours today. As us any questions you might have about publishing, our books -- new... Continue Reading →
by Chris McMahon I've been doing a lot of first drafting over the last few months, working away on a new science fiction novel. I don't know about everyone else, but I find first drafting the hardest work of the whole writing cycle. Plots and storylines write themselves by comparison. I find the first draft intimidating, difficult... Continue Reading →
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