This isn’t the place to start reading this series. If you’re interested in how I develop ideas into stories, and then into outlines, and then into drafts, head back and start at part one, then work your way forward until you end up here. Kind of like the snake swallowing its tail thing, the beginning [...]
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In parts one and two of this little series of mine, I explained how I generated an idea, turned that idea into the framework of a story, and then built that up into an outline. In this part, I’m going to show you the revised draft of the first chapter, so you can see what is [...] In part one of this little series, I talked about how I come up with ideas (specifically for an urban fantasy novel called The Ruthless Dead), and how I turn an idea into a story. In this segment, I’ll talk about the longest part of the writing process for me (yes, even longer than writing the [...] This is going to be the first of a three-part series about my writing process. If you have no interest in looking under the hood at how a writer goes from idea to final product, move along! There’s lots of other stuff out on the intrawebbies to keep you occupied in the meantime. If you are [...] Just a note to let everyone know that I’ll be in Burlington, Massachusetts, this weekend to attend Readercon, a science fiction and fantasy convention that — gasp! — is focused on the written word, like books and short stories, rather than movies or television or gaming. There isn’t even a masquerade, which is fine by [...] Very interesting article over at Deadline Hollywood about Warner Bros’ new policy of delivery date enforcement. Be sure to read the comments. Lots of interesting back and forth between writers and producers. In a move that has writers and their reps buzzing, Warner Bros has just put out word that it will start to enforce [...] A few disclaimers before I dive in to the review … I like Blake Charlton. I’ve never met him in person, never spoken to him on the phone, but we’ve become online friends through Twitter and Facebook (yes, it is possible) and an occasional email or two, and I just like the guy. We also share [...] I’ve read a couple of Paolo Bacigalupi’s short stories, which I enjoyed, and was intrigued by the praised heaped on his first novel,The Windup Girl, a science fiction novel taking place in a future Thailand where petroleum is long gone and uncontrollable genetic plagues sweep the planet. (It’s not every first novel that Time Magazine [...] As I’ve talked about here and here and here, I write longish outlines for my novels. As I’ve been working my way through the outline for The Black Flame (the second volume in my YA series about a teenage girl involved with witches, demons, and immortal beings from the Garden of Eden), I realized another [...] Charlie Stross is one of the smartest guys writing science fiction today (if you haven’t read any of his work, by all means run out and grab something! And please pay for it after you grab it.). He also writes a very interesting blog on which he discusses a fairly wide and eclectic variety of [...] |
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