I apologize for a lengthy absence. I’ve been very concerned with getting “settled in” with a new agent and finishing up a new manuscript for him to “shop”. I’ll try to do better in the It is for this reason http://www.icks.org/html/06_bylaws.php cialis online overnight has been manufactured and launched in Read more…
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I want to welcome Universality of Cheese back to the blogosphere. I admire a man who stands up for what he believes in, especially in the face of the attacks he has received. My US readers won’t be aware of the brouhaha going on in Scotland over political blogging. If Read more…
I keep swearing I’ll never mention politics (especially Scottish politics) again and then fall off the wagon. So visualize me climbing back on the wagon and getting back to the topic of writing. I was going on a bit about Heinlein’s Rules and his first two were pretty straightforward. You Read more…
I posted a few days ago (ok… ok… it was a couple of weeks) about how to succeed in writing and mentioned that you actually have to write. Afterwards, I realized that, of course, I was merely echoing the great Robert Heinlein in his Heinlein’s Rules from his classic essay Read more…
Some say that there are no rules for writing. Someone recently told me that. It happened that Mark Twain disagreed and he gave an interesting list. On my “if you’re going to steal, steal from someone great” theory, I’m stealing the good Mr. Clement’s rules, which are: Twain’s Rules of Read more…
How much does it matter to you as a reader? How much as a writer? I have to admit it matters immensely to me, but I’m never quite sure where to bend when writing my own historical works. Examples of what annoyed me: a spinning wheel in 14th century England. Read more…
No more politics. But I’m not sure that writing about writing isn’t more depressing. I am currently of the opinion that being a writer pretty much sucks. It isn’t so much the rejections from publishers and agents although I certainly won’t pretend I don’t get my share of those. Don’t Read more…
I to discuss an article in Baen’s Universe by writer/editor Mike Resnick about Slush Piles. He, after all, probably knows as much as there is to know about them. He got out of them; he used to read them; and he now has minions who read them on his behalf. Read more…
One of the things that annoys me is when writers assume that the bigger the sword the more effective it is. This simply isn’t true and a writer concerned about realistically portraying sword fights should realize this. Swords are for cutting (and less often for thrusting) not for crushing so Read more…