by David | Aug 1, 2015 | Articles, Fictorians
Allow me to introduce you to the Fictorians, who blog as a group at Fictorians.com. We’re a group of (mostly) young and up and coming writers who write about all aspects of the writing life. Our 1000th blog will occur in this month, August, and to celebrate, we...
by David | Jun 26, 2015 | Articles, Fictorians
Most of us are not so egocentric that we write strictly for our own pleasure. We want our work to connect to readers. We want to know that we are touching someone; that our work creates a resonance in at least one reader who feels what we are trying to create in the...
by David | Jan 25, 2015 | Articles
I don’t often suffer writer’s block. It does happen to me occasionally. Most of the time I don’t consider it to be a real block, though. Rather, what’s usually happened is I’ve written myself to a place where I can’t make the...
by David | Dec 29, 2014 | Articles
Well, I look back and see that I haven’t been a diligent about posting here as I should have. Sorry. I’ll try to do better in 2015. It’s been a good year, writing-wise. Sales of 1635: Music and Murder and 1636: The Devil’s Opera, which were...
by David | Dec 26, 2014 | Articles, Fictorians
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right!” — Rudyard Kipling, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, first native English-speaker to attain that prize. The above is taken from a poem...
by David | Apr 2, 2014 | Articles
Kinda like tonight, for instance. I’m working on the scene I started last night, which features the unsane aliens. It’s not hard to describe the actions. But getting my head in a place where I can sort of understand the motivations of the aliens is a...
