Monthly Archives: March 2009
A Paen* to My Second Favourite Beverage
This is wonderful – but I have no idea why my colleagues sent it to me.
* or paean if you are being Flinthart about it.
Upgrade = a pseudo Old English word meaning 'to screw with your life'
Random rant: the people who mess around with the gas lines are loose in my area. They are digging holes, entering houses, leaving notes in letterboxes that say ‘We’re upgrading’. Last night I get home at 7.30ish to find one such note stuck in the door – it said ‘We couldn’t get into your property to fix a gas leak,
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Dialogue is not Human Speech (it just sounds like it)
I heard the above this morn and realized how very true it is. I mean, I knew it was true anyway (I tell enough people), but hearing it out loud and from someone else’s mouth really brought it home to me.
If your fiction dialogue sounded like your everyday, fer-real dialogue your readers would be bored. You would be bored (or
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Nancy Kress
The legendary Nancy Kress says useful things over here http://nancykress.blogspot.com/2009/02/writing-mistakes.html about common writing mistakes. It’s always helpful, as writer, to remind yourself of First Principles now and again … coz the moment you think you know it all … you don’t.
Sean Williams' novel "The Crooked Letter" is now available as a free download via Pyr
Sean Williams’ novel “The Crooked Letter” is now available as a free download via Pyr. http://ladnews.livejournal.com/112580.html (contains the link and some mirror sites)
My good friend/fiend, Jason Fischer had this to say: “This book is one of my all-time fantasy faves. You will not find a bland pseudo- European vanilla fantasy here, rather this is the beginning of an all-encompassing saga
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