Want to Help Me Brainstorm?

I need to figure out who killed the king. OK, there’s a bit more to it than that. I’m in the will-this-shiny-new-idea-work stage of a new novel. It’s coming together beautifully and I’m in love with the main characters. But I’m still...

The Next Big Thing! – Author Edition

So, I was tagged to do this “The Next Big Thing” meme, by one of my favorite author people, J.M. Frey. The way it works, I tag five other authors in turn to participate by answering the questions below. Naturally, I tagged the following authors: R.B. Wood...

Grammatical Error Personality Type

As a follow up to last week’s wildly popular Your Punctuation Personality Type, a post Bryan Thomas Schmidt, @BryanThomasS hosted on his blog, we’ve dug through the (imaginary) research archives for similar studies.  Not only is English the most widely spoken language...

Your Punctuation Personality Type: A Guest Post

I’m guest posting over on the blog of Bryan Thomas Schmidt, @BryanThomasS, with a funny called Your Punctuation Personality Type. It’s sort of a combo of Jung and Briggs Myers and your daily horoscope that I totally pulled out of my ass. Enjoy! Your...

In Which I Am Wounded But Triumphant

Or: What a SciFi/Fantasy Writer Can Learn From A Gatoraid Bottle I met and did battle with a worthy foe this weekend. He was tenacious and strong, with the heart of a warrior. But in the end, I went home and he went in the recycle bin. As a consequence, I woke up on...