At the website Upstart Crow, Michael Stearns talks about the wonderful Bruce Coville and his theory that to come up with a truly original idea, you need to go through 19 other ideas first. He’s talking mainly about character names and places, but I think it’s relevant to writing the story itself as well. At [...]
Archive for June, 2010
20 ideas
Posted in General on June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Werewolves
Posted in General on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have a short blog post up at Dark Fiction Reviews, where guest bloggers are talking about their fave werewolf fiction. The cover for Haunted Legends is out! It’s very chilling. Actually makes me think of the trees which inspired my story “The Hanging People.”
Baggage
Posted in General on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the anthology Baggage coming out soon, the contributors are running something of a blog tour. My first appearance is at Alan Baxter’s page, where he interviews me along with Deborah Biancotti, Laura E. Goodin and Gillian Polack. In the process of the interview, Alan and I had the most amazing correspondence around my email [...]
Peter Watts
Posted in General on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a supporter. Roll on Worldcon! From Cat Sparks: “Many of you will be familiar with this story already but for anyone who isn’t: Last year Canadian marine biologist and science fiction writer Dr Peter Watts underwent a terrifying ordeal at the hands of over zealous border crossing guards in Port Huron, USA. While leaving [...]
Gathering Info
Posted in General on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I sometimes find myself listening to a sad story someone is telling me and thinking, I can use that. I don’t, though. My theory is that if someone I know personally tells me something, that’s their story, not mine. If I overhear it on the bus, or it’s on the news, or it’s some kind [...]
