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- 23: Why Boston? A Plea For Support (0)
- 16: You keep using that word (5)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Exposition Preliminaries (1)
- 23: Three Authors Who Got Me Started (14)
- 16: Noun of Nouns (15)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: World-Building Specifics (1)
- 25: Writing and Revising (7)
- 16: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (38)
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- 25: The Loss of Another Bookstore (1)
- 21: The Skill List Project: World-Building Preliminaries (3)
- 16: An Open Letter to the Creators of Sexist Fantasy and Comic Book Art (26)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Imagery (0)
- 23: Avoiding the Convenient Plot Point (13)
- 16: Out of Step (2)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Symbolism Preliminaries (4)
- 21: Why Do We Bother?: The Quest for Accuracy (4)
- 16: The End Is Nigh (0)
- 05: Back Door into Magic (3)
- 01: ‘Tis the Season (4)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Theme (6)
- 15: The Future of Publishing? (4)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Character Motivation (4)
- 23: Six Non-Writing Things That Might Improve Your Writing (11)
- 16: This Wardrobe Closed Until Further Notice (29)
- 15: And You Thought Writing Had Nothing to Do With Math (6)
- 05: True to type (10)
- 01: The Category Game (8)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Characterization Tools (3)
- 25: On Editors and Revisions (8)
- 18: A Hundred Pages About Trees (16)
- 18: Literary archaeology (5)
- 05: Historical fantasy and all that (3)
- 01: Ideal Convention Panels (2)
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- 31: The Skill List Project: Characterization Skills and Sources (4)
- 23: A Writer’s Belated Tribute to FIREFLY (10)
- 16: Broccoli Books (13)
- 15: History’s First Geek – H.G. Wells (1)
- 01: I Know It When I See It (12)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Dialogue Attribution (5)
- 23: A Father and Writer Looks At Violence In His Books (14)
- 16: Failure Is Good for You (6)
- 15: Details, Details (22)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Dialogue Purpose (3)
- 25: Blending Mystery and Speculative Fiction (5)
- 16: Exceptions ARE the rule (3)
- 15: Did Star Trek Wreck SF? (14)
- 05: Watch me spit tacks (1)
- 01: The Effect of Water and Walking (or, Brainstorming) (3)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Dialogue Preliminaries (2)
- 23: A Post In Which YOU Tell ME About Self-Promotion (23)
- 16: The Effect She Can Have (13)
- 15: Who Was the First Kickass Heroine? (16)
- 01: Call Me A Rebel (Or, My Life As A Novella-ist) (5)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Fight Pacing (1)
- 23: Characters Striking Out On Their Own (11)
- 14: It’s Fantasy, Dammit, Not SF! (14)
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- 23: Books and Movies, Movies and Books (12)
- 21: The Skill List Project: Fight Scene Basics (11)
- 16: Would you rather be wrong or right? (3)
- 15: Are RPGS Bad or Good For Writing? (17)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Word Choice and Wordspace (1)
- 23: E-Publishing and the Short Story Writer (10)
- 16: Competence is hot, part two (10)
- 15: Too Many POVs? (24)
- 05: Do you dream?… (8)
- 01: Which Con Are You? (10)
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- 31: Drawing on Literary Traditions: THE HUNGER GAMES and THE MAZE RUNNER as Case Studies (5)
- 23: The Skill List Project: Writing Descriptive Passages (5)
- 16: Competence is hot (12)
- 15: What’s Your Favorite Anecdote About Learning How to Write? (6)
- 05: Promotion, self-promotion, and all that jazz (14)
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- 23: A Writer’s Letter To Santa (3)
- 21: The Skill List Project: Scene Beginnings and Endings (6)
- 15: Secrets of Writing – Pacing (4)
- 05: Fairy Tale Business (6)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Scene Design (4)
- 23: What Are Your Favorite Re-Readable Books? (8)
- 16: Research for writers, #4: Get Help (5)
- 14: Secrets of Writing – Transitions (10)
- 01: Electronic Means Never Needing to Say “I’m Sorry.” (7)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Plot Flow (4)
- 24: The Secrets of Good Blogging (19)
- 21: Works In Progress (4)
- 16: Research for writers, #3: LCSH and friends (8)
- 15: What Is YA? (17)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Starting to Plot (5)
- 25: About writing for kids (5)
- 16: Research for Writers #2: In Defense of Wikipedia (16)
- 15: Is Harry Potter YA? (12)
- 01: You Don’t Know Me (7)
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- 25: The Skills List Project: Plot Units (4)
- 23: A Year To Remember (4)
- 16: Research for Writers, #1: Going There (9)
- 15: Do You Want to Be a Writer, or Do You Want to Write? (12)
- 01: SFNovelists Sampler – A Year’s Worth of Reading! (13)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: The Raconteur Viewpoint (7)
- 21: Thoughts on Creating Magic Systems (5)
- 20: Birds, Dinosaurs, and the Secret Life of Labels (15)
- 16: Prodding the Defaults, Episode 316 (6)
- 15: Does Heinlein Matter? (21)
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- 23: Finishing a Puzzle (5)
- 21: The Skill List Project: Avoiding Viewpoint Mistakes (6)
- 20: The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book! (25)
- 16: If you wave your hands hard enough, dragons can fly (7)
- 15: Do You Prefer Adventure, or Politics, in Your Epic Fantasy? (25)
- 06: Alma Impersonates The White Rabbit (0)
- 01: Summer Time… And the Reading is Easy (4)
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- 31: The Skill List Project: Viewpoint Selectivity (10)
- 23: Google and Piracy: One Author’s Perspective (44)
- 16: Worldbuilding, from the ground up (22)
- 15: Moving Day (4)
- 07: Experimenting in eBooks (23)
- 05: Stories stories everywhere… (3)
- 02: Something Completely Different… Fright Court (16)
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- 24: Lessons from Fourth Graders (9)
- 21: Villains! (7)
- 20: The Skill List Project: Viewpoint and Story Experience (4)
- 16: Aaron Sorkin’s Error (13)
- 15: Mega Millions!!! (4)
- 05: Welcome to the dance – who’s leading…? (2)
- 01: Push Me, Pull You (20)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Reading Analytically (8)
- 23: A Conversation About Outlining and Worldbuilding, Part II (1)
- 16: Good foundations (3)
- 15: The Proper Tools (12)
- 01: New Sponge Day (6)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Reading Judiciously (7)
- 21: A Conversation About Outlining and Worldbuilding (12)
- 16: Narrative at group rates (17)
- 15: Simple Writing Tricks (4)
- 01: The E-Book Revolution (31)
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- 21: A New Idea (11)
- 20: The Skill List Project: Reading Voraciously (7)
- 16: It BETTER not all be a dream (16)
- 15: Callooh! Callay! (2)
- 05: “The Plot Escapes Me” (6)
- 01: Be It Resolved… (5)
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- 23: You Can’t Teach Passion (6)
- 21: The Skill List Project: Punctuation and its Discontents (2)
- 16: Responses and reviews, criticism and critique (4)
- 15: What Is SF? (12)
- 05: What’s on TV tonight…? (and what isn’t…) (6)
- 01: ‘Tis the Season (for Feasting!) (11)
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- 25: The Skill List Project: Learning to Love Grammar (4)
- 24: Overnight Success (16)
- 23: What I Learned While Working On My Newest Book (5)
- 16: Fight! Fight! Fight! (11)
- 15: First Drafts (7)
- 11: People like stuff that you don’t. That’s OK.* (12)
- 05: “Impostor Syndrome” (4)
- 01: When is Speculative Fiction not Speculative Fiction? (13)
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- 29: The Skill List Project: Vocabulary (8)
- 21: Read This Post! And Other Effective Titles (12)
- 16: Honored (5)
- 15: Reading is FUNdamental! (14)
- 05: For love and comfort (7)
- 04: To Series? Or Not To Series? (7)
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- 28: Bones, flesh and clothes: research and the research-heavy story (8)
- 24: Time to Write (21)
- 23: A Good Day (4)
- 16: Woman =/= Body (16)
- 15: Boys Don’t Read (39)
- 11: $@&@%# Muse! (6)
- 05: De-fence… (5)
- 01: By Any Other Name… (5)
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- 23: Thoughts on Writing While Listening to Jazz (5)
- 20: The Skill List Project (42)
- 19: Problem solved (3)
- 16: Publishing and Class (3)
- 16: T&A on Parade (20)
- 05: On Magic (8)
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- 28: Narrative, Resonance and Genre (23)
- 23: My Favorite (3)
- 16: The Honorary Male (22)
- 15: Not Yet A Professional (9)
- 11: Dragon Diaries Part The Third (8)
- 06: Shhh, I’ve got this book… (8)
- 05: It’s my birthday. (11)
- 01: The Law of Unintended Edits (5)
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- 28: Traduttore, Traditore: translations, languages and cultures (19)
- 23: The Inspiration I Draw From I. M. Notariter (21)
- 16: The Monstrous Feminine (41)
- 15: Writing Science Fiction vs Fantasy (26)
- 11: Dancing the Self-Promotion Tango, Or: I’m Just Not That Into Me (5)
- 03: The New Book (5)
- 01: Reading is Fun(damental) (17)
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- 25: SpellCrash Launches Today, Eep! (5)
- 25: Saying goodbye (4)
- 24: Libraries vs. File Sharing Sites (16)
- 20: The Fundamentals (4)
- 16: Who Mary Sue Isn’t (43)
- 14: The Ones You Walk Away From (8)
- 11: More Dragon Diaries, An Experiment In Microfiction (10)
- 05: The long and the short of it (3)
- 03: Writing Deadlines – The Missed and the Made (7)
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- 23: ROBIN HOOD and “Creative Ownership” (15)
- 17: I Love It When A Plan Comes Together (17)
- 16: The problem of the Childlike Empress (44)
- 15: Heroines Who Don’t Kick Ass (24)
- 11: Just For Silly’s Sake—The Dragon Diaries (updated) (23)
- 05: Pros at Cons (5)
- 01: Feeling Like A Fool (11)
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- 24: First (Pro) Novel Survey Results (5)
- 23: More on Allowing Yourself Not to Write (9)
- 18: Writing, Grief, and Stress (18)
- 17: And So It Goes (18)
- 16: First Girl Ever (19)
- 15: Write What You Don’t Know (15)
- 05: Are you enjoying the journey? (15)
- 01: Cleansing the Palate (6)
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- 24: Writing Terms Defined (22)
- 23: How I Know I’m a Writer (40)
- 16: Emasculation not required (21)
- 15: One Writer’s Take on Amazonfail (12)
- 05: Entitled (11)
- 03: Writing Companions (12)
- 01: Attacking by Retreating (5)
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- 21: Resolution Made; Now, Can I Keep It? (16)
- 17: Did You Ever Have One of Those Ideas? (8)
- 16: Home is where the hero isn’t (16)
- 15: Sam-Who-Likes-Nothing – The Stars My Destination (17)
- 05: Pet story… (13)
- 04: Day Late, Dollar Short (or How I Make New Year’s Resolutions) (10)
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- 30: Book Cover Design 101: Unleashing the Monster (17)
- 18: When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong (49)
- 16: Virgins and whores (22)
- 15: Write What You Like (9)
- 14: My Latest Challenge (And Why This Post is so Short) (8)
- 11: Sometimes Even Writers Need A Break From Writing (8)
- 05: The Power of Nothing (2)
- 01: DidYouNaNo? (17)
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- 26: A Literary Thanksgiving (4)
- 24: SF/F Humor Roundup (18)
- 23: Fathers and Masculinity (37)
- 18: Fighting for Spawn (17)
- 16: A woman’s place is not in the refrigerator (52)
- 15: The Future of Bookstores? (19)
- 05: What do we know and when do we want to know it? (10)
- 03: Writing the Sequel (2)
- 01: Writers Behaving Badly (18)
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- 26: The scary bits (9)
- 23: Our Books, Warts and All (18)
- 21: The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest – Follow Up (15)
- 17: Snip, snip, cut, cut . . . back to the drawing board (9)
- 16: Age-appropriate (13)
- 15: The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest (18)
- 11: Sabbatical (4)
- 05: What then should we do…? (5)
- 03: Of Beds and Writing (7)
- 02: 3 Questions with Mindy Klasky (7)
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- 26: One year later (13)
- 24: Writers and Depression (25)
- 23: What Sports Can Tell Us About Storytelling…And What they Can’t (6)
- 18: More on Writing Women in SFF (15)
- 17: Writers Are Magpies–or Where Do You Get Your Ideas? (9)
- 16: The value of the Bechdel Test (29)
- 15: We Are the Orcs (17)
- 13: The Condescending Review (23)
- 11: Self-Promoting Authors Anonymous (2)
- 05: Happily Ever After… (24)
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- 31: What makes a successful writer? (26)
- 26: Finding my way in (19)
- 24: That New Manuscript Smell (3)
- 21: Learning to Teach Writing (11)
- 18: Field of Vision (4)
- 17: Serializing a Novel (22)
- 16: More lasting than bronze (11)
- 15: Write Another Book (11)
- 11: A Part, Yet Apart (16)
- 05: Goin’ Fishin’… (1)
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- 28: Where did the Stormlord come from? (4)
- 16: Villains vs. antagonists (14)
- 15: 5 Signs Your WIP Is Done (9)
- 13: “When Did You Know…?” (18)
- 05: When writers review… (12)
- 03: Writing By The Seat Of The Pants Part II (3)
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- 26: Website Help! (12)
- 24: What’s a Story? (20)
- 23: “Hard Times Come Again No More….” (12)
- 18: All Writers Are (11)
- 17: Writing by the Seat of the Pants (13)
- 16: A matter of leverage (8)
- 15: Give Me Narrative or Give Me Death (14)
- 11: Building a Writing Career—The Real Secret Handshake (8)
- 10: Are writers workaholics? (30)
- 05: Writing for the World (7)
- 03: Research Is Half the Fun (13)
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- 28: BURNING SKIES launch interview (1)
- 26: MythOS Launch Interview (8)
- 25: Anniversaries, and Other Celebrations (2)
- 20: Are Our Books Really Children? And If So, Whose Children…? (16)
- 18: “There aren’t enough books being written for this age group.” (11)
- 17: Word Wars (5)
- 16: Hearts and sleeves, Round Two (3)
- 15: Writers’ Tricks and Anthropology (4)
- 13: Writers’ nightmares (literally) (6)
- 11: Writing and Self Promotion, A Dialogue With Myself (14)
- 05: Fame (6)
- 03: Yet More on Editing and Revision (3)
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- 26: The frivolous side of publishing (28)
- 24: The Writer as Martial Artist (16)
- 23: More on Revising and Editing (9)
- 18: Useful & non-useful criticism (11)
- 16: How I write female characters (26)
- 15: Don’t Buy My Book (8)
- 11: Conception to Completion (7)
- 05: The First Time (2)
- 03: The Insanity of a Writer (one of them anyway) (8)
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- 31: Form of…mass market (26)
- 26: Different kinds of bliss (15)
- 25: Character Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (4)
- 24: Pop Quiz for Writers (14)
- 23: For Whom Do We Write? (27)
- 18: Who is that character based on, really? (16)
- 17: Winnowing Down the Cast (6)
- 16: Reading in, reading out (10)
- 15: The Tipping Point (6)
- 11: Tradition and Red Currant Jelly…not a writing post (12)
- 05: Brave New World (2)
- 03: Beginning Again (19)
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- 26: Dusting off the files (1)
- 25: That Contemporary Twist, or It’s the Economy, Stupid (5)
- 24: How Incestous is SF/F, Anyway? (12)
- 21: Why Continuity Matters (12)
- 20: More on Creativity (With Thanks to Kate Elliott for the Inspiration) (8)
- 18: Creativity (12)
- 17: The Evils of (fill in the blank) (9)
- 16: Flash fiction: building an arch (1)
- 15: The Happy Place (10)
- 11: Waiting for Inspiration: A Writer’s Morality Play (10)
- 03: Pacing In Your Novel (14)
- 02: The Creative Process (14)
- 01: How I Met Stan Lee (and Steve Ditko) (12)
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- 26: Firsts (7)
- 22: Grist for the Mill (10)
- 17: Awards and Ebooks (16)
- 17: Call me nobody–a blog post of parenthetical asides (1)
- 16: This is the story of a problem. (13)
- 15: Doing Two Things At Once (9)
- 13: I Have a Bone to Pick with the Inauguration Committee (11)
- 11: Backup—A Writer’s PSA (15)
- 07: Mom, I Don’t Want to Write Today (11)
- 05: Series and serials (12)
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- 26: Christmas Stories (10)
- 25: Stocking Stuffers (7)
- 24: Holiday Greetings from Jig the goblin and Smudge the fire-spider (13)
- 18: Cliches I Have Loved (16)
- 16: There’s Something About Monarchy (16)
- 15: “The Experience of Boredom and Disgust” (13)
- 10: Making Worlds That Make Sense (19)
- 10: Writing and Sanity—Two Lists (5)
- 09: To th gr at alphab t soup in th sky (11)
- 05: Counting down… (2)
- 03: Reincarnated as YA (4)
- 03: Finding the love again (2)
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- 30: How do you make your book the best it can be? (12)
- 27: Not Much of a Life… (7)
- 26: Writing for love (8)
- 25: Continuing the “Thanks” Theme… (7)
- 24: Thank the Maker (5)
- 21: Time of the Season (8)
- 17: What I like about NanoWrimo (7)
- 17: Time Keeps Twisting (9)
- 16: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? (15)
- 15: More Thoughts on David B. Coe’s Post (10)
- 15: Science and Science Fiction (2)
- 14: The Sneer (4)
- 13: Killing Off a Character (17)
- 11: Rejections As A Way Of Keeping Score (4)
- 10: Confessions of a Media Fan (3)
- 05: Start something new (2)
- 03: A truly magical book (4)
- 01: The Gift of NaNoWriMo (11)
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- 31: Trick or Treat – for Children’s Literacy! (0)
- 26: A whole new world (11)
- 24: Where to Shop for Books (17)
- 23: SF/F and Race (9)
- 21: How Do You Deal With Distractions? (16)
- 17: The economy sucks–what are you doing for entertainment? (12)
- 16: Blood, love, and rhetoric (5)
- 15: I Love My Editors – Part 2 (8)
- 13: Defining Our Genre (8)
- 11: There’s Nothing Wrong With Happily Ever After (10)
- 10: On Predictions in Real Life and for Science Fiction (4)
- 05: How Stories End (7)
- 03: Auspiciousness (2)
- 01: Writing Quotes (13)
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- 28: My Own ePublishing Rant (31)
- 26: Different kinds of limbo (16)
- 25: First, Be Professional (7)
- 24: Welcome to the Nuthouse (8)
- 23: Character Development, part II (13)
- 19: Plot Synopsis Project II (0)
- 19: Ways to Avoid Distraction While On Deadline (7)
- 17: A publishing secret (10)
- 16: NaNoWriMo (24)
- 16: Apprentice, journeyman, master (11)
- 15: I Love My Editors, Part 1 (5)
- 12: The Query Project (1)
- 11: Don’t let Writing get in the way of writing (9)
- 05: “I’ve written this book…” (8)
- 04: The Summer That Wasn’t (4)
- 03: 7923 (6)
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- 25: Conquering Procrastination 101 (8)
- 24: More Thoughts & Links on Genre Bias (14)
- 21: My Newest Jacket Art (12)
- 17: teaching fantasy (31)
- 16: Applying heart to sleeve (9)
- 15: Villains or Monsters (22)
- 14: I want my Sean Stewart (10)
- 11: Writers Resources (1)
- 07: Sorry I’m late… (0)
- 03: Carving Out Time to Write (16)
- 01: Writing Dares (8)
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- 28: is it morning already? (7)
- 25: Bringing Together Authors and Readers – Book Groups Edition (2)
- 24: Getting Lucky (8)
- 22: The Dreaded Synopsis (11)
- 18: Not Writing (12)
- 17: Write in spurts (7)
- 17: Write Every Day (19)
- 16: Hard fantasy (21)
- 15: Plants In Space (22)
- 14: “Middling” Through (11)
- 13: the year (4)
- 11: On Beginnings and Planned Obsolescence (8)
- 11: On the Importance of Having a Life (15)
- 10: Real People, Unreal Worlds–Are you Liable to Libel? (15)
- 07: Making Cross-Promotion Fun (6)
- 05: For the love (3)
- 01: The Novel is Done, Long Live the Novel (7)
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- 25: My New Day Job (13)
- 24: Who do you write for? (10)
- 23: The Book I Love and Can’t Sell (22)
- 18: Incubation (7)
- 18: The Process of Finishing Up a Book (22)
- 17: Giving it all away (2)
- 16: The writer at play (8)
- 15: Getting Things Write (11)
- 11: Whistling in the Dark-Or More On The Pace of Publishing (2)
- 10: Hurry Up And Wait (2)
- 09: Project Monogamy (3)
- 09: Book launch: Midnight Never Come (3)
- 04: Promotional Burn Out (7)
- 03: The end is nigh (5)
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- 30: CodeSpell Launch Interview (4)
- 27: Bittersweet, Death and a Book Launch (10)
- 27: Are you inspired? (6)
- 24: The Publishing Lottery (16)
- 18: Why Are Books So Long? (16)
- 17: Building a brand (5)
- 17: What I write. (5)
- 16: My weak spots (10)
- 15: I Hate Writing (31)
- 14: What Kind of Jacket Art Do You Want on Your Book? (10)
- 10: Panic (3)
- 09: Science vs. Fantasy: A False Dichotomy (8)
- 05: Counting legs (0)
- 04: 12 Things to Avoid when under a Book Deadline (7)
- 03: Bad Guys (0)
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- 29: Committing Series (15)
- 28: larks and owls (11)
- 27: ‘Making changes’… uh, no… ‘editing’… umm, ‘revising’… (5)
- 24: On Failure (12)
- 23: Four Teachers (14)
- 22: Darkness Defined (SF vs. Fantasy Redux) (9)
- 18: My Manifesto (17)
- 17: Part book review, part musings on writing (7)
- 16: Publicity … (3)
- 16: Jumping Ship (3)
- 15: Endings (2)
- 11: A Guide to Reviewing a Book: A Writer’s Perspective (11)
- 09: What makes me stop reading (20)
- 08: My Dragon Takes Your Starship! (19)
- 05: There and back again (2)
- 04: An Idea for an Idea (6)
- 03: Huh? Or Why Characters Do What They Do (5)
- 01: Novel Haiku (7)
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- 31: When Writers Don’t Write (9)
- 24: Racing Along at the Speed of Publishing (6)
- 18: The Plot Synopsis Project – and why I didn’t participate (3)
- 17: Digging Into Taboo (7)
- 16: Stars in our eyes (6)
- 15: Cover Story: A First-Timer’s Education (10)
- 15: What’s Your Favorite Con? (8)
- 14: The Thinking Person’s Seven Deadly Sins (18)
- 13: Revisions (8)
- 12: The Care and Feeding of the North American SF Novelist (4)
- 11: Writing With Pets = Imagination Insurance (8)
- 10: Writing-Related Dreams (8)
- 06: A Brief History of the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers (1)
- 05: The good and scary, hand in hand… (1)
- 04: Spider Star Released, Free Chapters Available (4)
- 03: Taboo Topics (26)
- 01: Happy Flaw (11)
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- 29: Fire Study Release! (1)
- 28: Ignore that deadline behind the curtain! (13)
- 27: On Negative Reviews… (26)
- 26: Show, Don’t Tell: The Great Debate (8)
- 24: Promotional Madness (8)
- 22: The Great Query Letter Debate (2)
- 20: Secret Handshake (15)
- 18: A Few Brief Notes on “Epic” (6)
- 17: Stringing a story together (16)
- 15: Oh, Joy! Oh, Rapture! (5)
- 14: Love triangulation (11)
- 14: Happy V-Day. Here’s Your Sonnet. (4)
- 13: A Full-Time Writer’s Top Ten List (10)
- 10: How Did I Get Here? (4)
- 08: The Worst Science Fiction Movie Ever! (34)
- 06: Administrivia (8)
- 05: Ain’t nothing new - (2)
- 04: Juggling (7)
- 03: What a writer can’t do–a ramble post (5)
- 01: Pushing Your Punches (13)
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- 31: Sex in Space (2)
- 29: Sexing Things UP (10)
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- 17: Cutting my losses (20)
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- 10: Top Ten Science-Based Sci-Fi Movies (Revised) (31)
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- 05: The effortlessness of Gods, or “Did you do it yourself?” (5)
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- 03: 10 Things learned in the course of novel revising (8)
- 01: What’s your plan? (10)
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- 21: Are You a REAL Writer Yet? (7)
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- 18: What is Work? (22)
- 17: Between books (7)
- 17: When an author “changes” (11)
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- 11: Novelist, Gamer, Story Junkie (8)
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- 05: The fantasy ghetto of your dreams… (3)
- 04: MySpace Addict (11)
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- 26: Writers as Readers… Or Worse (?) Fans (15)
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- 21: What do you do with a bad review? (8)
- 20: Say It Ain’t So, PO (5)
- 18: A Reader Reading Reviews (2)
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- 08: Worth A Thousand Words? (7)
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- 04: Nothing New to Say? (5)
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- 18: “It’s HBO-style epic fantasy” (12)
- 17: Life in the blurbs (10)
- 17: I am back in highschool (1)
- 16: Why I will never write a Mayan apocalypse novel (1)
- 15: First Love (7)
- 13: More About Agents (1)
- 12: Science in my Science Fiction: Literacy? (8)
- 11: To Sign or Not to Sign (10)
- 10: Face Bookishness (17)
- 09: Psst, Reading for Fun is Fine (8)
- 05: The (Mutual) Care and Feeding of Authors and Agents (4)
- 04: Pay attention, I might assign homework (3)
- 03: You want me to do what to my book? (7)
- 01: The Sound of Writing (13)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: “Best Book Ever” Says Author’s Mom (10)
- 28: Procrastination (14)
- 27: I’ve got an idea…! (7)
- 26: Blood Engines Is Loose (0)
- 25: Launch Day Interviews: Mindy Klasky/Kelly McCullough (0)
- 25: Cybermancy Launch Day-Never Give Up (8)
- 25: Care and Feeding of Newborn Books (3)
- 24: Making the Time (3)
- 23: Plots and Process and Samuel R. Delany (5)
- 20: Building Stories & Birthing Books (2)
- 20: You Say “Sci-Fi,” I Say SF: Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off… (16)
- 18: The Meddlesome Muse (5)
- 18: Ticking of the clock (5)
- 17: Why that book? (6)
- 16: Respecting history (13)
- 15: Why I like Jane Austen and E.E. “Doc” Smith. (0)
- 14: Science in My Science Fiction: Come to the Dark Side (7)
- 13: The Solitary Act (2)
- 12: How to Write a Good Book (2)
- 11: Home again… (0)
- 10: Promo yes or no? (19)
- 07: You Shelved It…Where? (11)
- 05: To Theme or Not To Theme (6)
- 03: Maunderings on expertise and writing (5)
- 02: A video interview with S.C. Butler (0)
Detailed Monthly Archive
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- 30: The DVD extras should be turned off when reading for the first time (15)
- 29: Maps and Things (5)
- 28: Life after trilogy (10)
- 27: Writer vs. Artist (6)
- 26: Nom[s] de Shame (11)
- 25: To Spoil Or Not To Spoil (14)
- 24: Secrets of a Good Villain (16)
- 23: When to quit your day job (11)
- 22: Beyond the Cloud of Negative Energy (0)
- 21: Summer Rejects (10)
- 20: Revision and critique (8)
- 18: The Disposable Woman (22)
- 17: School visits (7)
- 16: Tough women, and facsimiles thereof (20)
- 15: Making It Fun (2)
- 14: The Middle – Neglected Filling or Main Course? (4)
- 13: Can you learn to write creatively? (2)
- 10: Cat Herder (6)
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- 08: Videopost: interview with Joshua Palmatier (0)
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