One piece of genre fiction writing and submitting advice that has always annoyed me: The speculative element must be introduced right away in a story. I saw this “rule” a lot when I was starting out, and though it’s obviously not written in stone (hence the quotation marks), it usually felt pretty rigid, a semi-official […]
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Eddie Generous at Unnerving Magazine recently called me up to grill me with excellent questions for their podcast. You can listen to it over at their site and hear me use my real voice in real time. Sadie AKA Mother Horror asked me some questions for her blog, covering everything from what scares me to what […]
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I believe in writing on a sentence and paragraph level. (I enjoy reading the same way in most cases, and what is a writer but a sponge?) Yes, I want to be swept along by the story I am telling, and this is also my goal. Quite often writing slowly and being swept along are […]
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It hit me recently that I’m turning five years old as an author. I worry about drawing attention to that — should I allow potential assumptions that I’ve been doing this longer in order to hide myself in an air of seasoned experience and the long honing of skill? Should I flaunt my enrollment in Author […]
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