November 2011
21 posts
An interview, alternate history, reading, &... →
Over at The Ranting Dragon site & forum, an interview with me just went up.
Among other things, I talk about some aspects of the world building of the Spiritwalker books;
Additionally, the…
If I had rebooted Star Trek →
I hear rumors they’ll be starting to film the second rebooted Star Trek film in January.
I watched the original Star Trek (the classic edition) as a child, mostly on afternoon repeats. Bones was my…
RT @vsatone: How come male superheroes never start out their careers as strippers and prostitutes?
Inspiration for a novel can come from the... →
Last Friday my sister told me that one of the reasons she liked the Spiritwalker books so much was that the banter reminded her of 30s screwball comedies.
I have to say that this was not a…
metteivieharrison: Too Strong for Too Long →
metteivieharrison:
About four years ago, I went to a therapist for “depression.” She listened to me talk about my life and my problems for about an hour and at the end, she told me something that I spent years trying to figure out. She said that I had been too strong for too long. At the time, I thought that this…
Spouse: “What makes this film really bad is that they’re pretending it’s better than it is.” #SeasonoftheWitch
Fiction as Inspiration: “It’s like getting a crush on a book.” http://t.co/v8L7OVU9
APEC comes to Hawaii →
We’re avoiding town (what those of us in the exurbs of Honolulu call Honolulu) because of the APEC conference which has so far involved much road closure and gridlock. There have been other signs of…
Because @amandacarlson asked for my Starbucks Hawaii experience today http://t.co/uD2bRODi
The One True Method →
As NaNoWriMo trundles on, with greater and lesser success for the many involved, and as other writers simply write, because that’s what they do, I reflect on the statement I would most like to…
Outtake Monday: from Cold Magic →
As an occasional series, I’m going to post outtakes from my novels. These will be paragraphs and snippets that did not make it into the final volume. I will try not to include major spoilers.
Here…
I like dark & gritty fantasy just fine, but I also want to read worlds in which people can DELIGHT in the landscape and each other.
Writing Character: Details →
Each character will have an individual way of reacting to and observing the world. These are the details you as the writer can use to reveal both your world and your character.
The details any…
Women and Fantasy →
Sherwood Smith has posted about the panel I was on at WFC San Diego (2011), “The Crystal Ceiling.” (an unfortunate title, if I must say so, and I must)
The Crystal Ceiling: Is there still a…
Songs That Go With Books →
In the wake of the release of Cold Fire, two different readers have (independently) written to me with songs they felt captured the emotion of the often tumultuous relationship between Cat and…
Clearly Cold Steel is going to be 2 books: The published novel, and the parallel unpublished other novel I threw out.
Cold Fire Word Cloud & NaNoWriMo Day 1 (2011) →
For the first day of NaNoWriMo I offer up the Cold Fire Word Cloud. Click through to see the Cold Fire Wordle
Today included some discussion of the problem of too much research and/or…
I need my really clever character to come up with a really clever plan. This would work best if I was clever and could think one up.
Spouse to the schnauzer: “Next year I’m going to dress you up in an Ewok costume.”