Screw you, Amazon and Google
I try to keep this blog professional and only related to my life as a writer, but this time I really need to vent where it might be seen. Besides, ranting about the Kindle app for Mac not working is sort of related to writing. Yesterday I opened my Kindle app and started to read […]
Wanna help me make a decision?
Which of these should I work on for NaNoWriMo? Richie Synopsis: Slice-of-life in a space opera setting about an up-and-coming rock star trying to juggle that with family life. First paragraph: Somewhere out there in the tri-galaxies, one of Richie’s older sisters was fighting to free a world from tyranny. Somewhere out there, another of […]
Confession time
I have a confession to make that won’t make me many friends: I like hyper-competent beautiful characters. Notice I didn’t say “I like Mary Sues.” There’s a reason for this . . . read carefully because lots of people seem to have trouble with this one, more every year: They’re not the same thing! First, […]
Works in progress, September edition
Welcome to the first installment of a new regularish feature where I will share info on my works in progress. I used to do this regularly, but then my blog had a readership of me, so it was pointless. Now I have a slightly bigger readership than that, so it’s not pointless. Also, I like lists […]
Some things that need to stop
I had another post in mind for today, had a clever title even, then something happened in a book I’m reading, something I’ve seen far too much lately, and I need to vent a bit now. Author of the book? If you happen to see this, remember, it’s not about you. You didn’t do […]
Jake’s Last Mission, conflict, a defense of Kristark’s Coronation as a story, probably other stuff too because I’m writing this right before bed so my inner editor is already asleep
First, I apologize in advance for, even for me, an unusual amount of rambly-ness in this post. And typos. And homonym errors. If I had any sense, I’d probably wait until tomorrow . . . err, later today, I guess . . . to write this. If I had any sense, however, I’d have gone […]
The Yellow Wallpaper, the problems with star ratings, and escapist fiction
In college I briefly was an English major. During this less than enjoyable time, I had to read many, many depressing stories. “The Yellow Wallpaper” has come in my mind to represent all of them, partially because it was one of the final straws in me changing my major. It was a brilliant story, an […]