by David | Dec 24, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
This is a very different article than I had planned to post. As I write this, it is the day after a very unsane (as opposed to insane) young man named Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started shooting people. By the...
by David | Dec 19, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
So, once you have the work started, how do you keep the words flowing? Sometimes, of course, you don’t have that problem. Sometimes you have to hustle to keep up with the flow. But sometimes, eh, you might have to encourage things a little. This isn’t...
by David | Sep 19, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
What do you do when your brainchild is stillborn? What do you do when the story you’ve spent months-years-in crafting and writing, the story you’ve almost literally sweated blood over, the story you love more than all your other literary children . . ....
by David | Aug 8, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
I love comics. And one webcomic in particular has hit the top of my list: Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio. (If you haven’t tried it, go here. I’ll wait.) All of which is prelude to this review of the first volume of the novelization of the comic: ...
by David | Jun 13, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
The writing business is in an incredible turmoil right now. It has been for a long time, actually. And right now, there are doom-sayers and prognosticators all over the place predicting that traditional publishing is on its last legs and the only way to go is...
by David | May 28, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
I recently passed a milestone in my professional career as a writer. I collaborated on a novel with Eric Flint, and the manuscript (well, the Word file) was just turned in to the publisher (Baen). Unless the publisher changes the title, it should see print as 1636:...
