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- On DeepGenre: Building Character(s) • May 30, 2008
On the group blog DeepGenre today, I tackle the question of building characters. Specifically, how do you build three-dimensional, believable characters in your stories? I compare building characters to the art of additive sculpture.
- Will the Novel Die? • March 17, 2008
I can’t find any current piece of journalism to use as a springboard for asking whether the novel will die. But considering that the question gets asked every 14 seconds somewhere on the blogosphere, I’m not going to worry. Just follow the trail of rent garments and gnashed teeth and you’ll find someone blathering about [...]
- How to Help Promote Your Favorite Author • February 13, 2008
We often latch on to the authors we love. We realize this is a tough business, and we don’t want them to starve. We want them fat and happy, sitting on cushions stuffed with hundred dollar bills. But what’s the best way to help them?
People who aren’t in the writing and publishing business often have [...]
- On DeepGenre: How to Write a Novel (Part 2) • January 21, 2008
This morning on DeepGenre, I’ve posted part 2 of my article on How to Write a Novel. (In case you missed it, here’s part 1.) This time I tackle how to get from your finished first draft to the final product. Excerpts:
Step 10: Get your first readers’ feedback, and listen to it. This is [...]
- On DeepGenre: How to Write a Novel (Part 1) • January 15, 2008
This morning on DeepGenre, I’ve posted a step-by-step guide to writing a novel. Or, at least, it’s a step-by-step guide to how I write a novel. Because every novelist who also blogs has to write at least one of these posts in their lifetime. Really, it’s in the union regulations.
Excerpts:
Step 2: Noodle around and figure [...]
- An Inside Look at the Copy Editing Process • December 13, 2007
If you're at all interested in the copy editing process that a novel goes through before it sees print, you might find this interesting. Here's a conversation I just had this morning with my copy editor, Deanna Hoak, about a sentence in my upcoming book "MultiReal."
- How Does the Story End? • October 21, 2007
On DeepGenre today: inspired by my thinking as I write the concluding volume of the Jump 225 trilogy, I’ve posted a meditation on how stories end, and why they end, and what the purpose of ending a story is in the first place. Using Batman as a metaphor, of course.
If you were to stand back [...]
- “MultiReal”: It’s Done • August 6, 2007
The photo you see here is the completed manuscript of my second novel, MultiReal, the sequel to Infoquake. It’s been somewhere around three years in the making, and now it’s done.
The book measures 477 pages, or about 148,000 words (including appendices). There are 6 sections, 45 chapters, and 8 appendices. The opening epigraph comes from [...]
- On DeepGenre: The End of Science Fiction • July 13, 2007
I’ve just written a long essay on the DeepGenre blog about how long the genre of science fiction is destined to last and whether we might see the end of it anytime soon. Read “The End of Science Fiction” and post your comments there.
Some excerpts:
Here’s something I’ve noticed about futuristic science fiction stories: the characters [...]
- KGB Reading Wrap-up • March 23, 2007
I arrived back late last night from my trip to New York for the Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at the KGB Bar. Co-organizer Ellen Datlow was kind enough to post photos of the event on her Flickr account.
The reading, I felt, went fabulous. At 40 people, the reading audience was both the largest and most [...]
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