Category Archives: On Writing: General
How Long Does Stuff Take?
Art by Kathleen Jennings
And by “stuff” I mean a career as a writer.
To start off, remember this: it’s unlikely that the first thing you write – be it short story or novel or article – will be the
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The Dead Girls Club: Damien Angelica Walters
1. What do new readers need to know about Damien Angelica Walters?
She is the author of The Dead Girls Club, Cry Your Way Home, Sing Me Your Scars, and Paper Tigers, which is no longer in print, although I think there
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Claiming T-Mo: Eugen Bacon
What do new readers need to know about Eugen Bacon?
My writing is a curiosity, unconstrained by form or genre. I take on aspects of my characters, immerse myself into their worlds. The writing is a search, a coming
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What to Do When You Don’t Have a Book Coming Out
Or
What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting
Being a writer may well mean writing all the time (in which case, you’re fortunate), or writing in as much of the day or night as you can
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Time Moves Differently Here
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The thing about writing a book is that it takes so long. And this is not a complaint, merely an observation[i]. This is my personal experience.
Bookering, bookerisation, bookification …
From
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Ten Things You Need to Know about Grants*:
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I’ve been fortunate enough to be awarded some grants during my career (by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and the Australia Council for the Arts). To balance things out, I have also not received many
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Danielle Kaheaku: In Extremis
Today, Danielle Kaheaku talks about her forthcoming novel, In Extremis, and other writerly stuff. An award-winning ghostwriter and editor, Danielle Kaheaku has worked in the entertainment industry for the past twelve years. She has active memberships in the Science Fiction
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Finding an Agent: the Ugly Truth
Art by Kathleen Jennings
Finding an Agent: the Ugly Truth[1]
by Angela Slatter
Literary agents manage, in theory, all the business of a writer’s work. This includes the submission, sale, contracting, publication, translation, production and reproduction. They act as
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S.P. Miskowski: The Worst is Yet to Come
S.P. Miskowski is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her stories have been published in Supernatural Tales, Black Static, Identity Theory, Strange Aeons and Eyedolon Magazine as well as in the anthologies
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How To Be A Writer
Art by Kathleen Jennings as always
So I was supposed to be answering interview questions, but for some reason I wrote this. Everyone’s experience and advice will be different, but this is mine.[1].
A writer
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