Michael Ian Black:
Maybe it’s an obvious thing to say, but any creative endeavor is a very frightening proposition. You work your ass off on something, give it everything you have, then put it out there, and, inevitably, wait for other people to tell you how much it sucks. That’s a hard thing to [...]
Submission guidelines for online magazines are often informative and hilarious. Here’s a particularly awesome gem from Eyeshot’s Hindenburg Complex of Infidels & Crusaders:1
… we are always open to reading anything you want to send (as long as it doesn’t involve dentists — lately lots of people have been sending dentist-related fiction and we’d [...]
I’m incredibly happy to report that Peter Atwood, one of my classmates at Clarion, and a terrific writer, has been nominated for best short story in the Prix Aurora Awards, for his story All In.
Congrats Peter!
If you think you might be a fantasy/science fiction writer, or if you’re sure you are, and you have the time and the wherewithal to spend six weeks in a quasi-paradise doing nothing but writing and dissecting stories and talking about fiction, studying under a series of amazing writers who you just might have been [...]
Keyan made some good points about my post on unlikeable characters from a couple of weeks ago, so I wanted to revisit the issue, and clarify some things.
First: I don’t buy Baush’s assertion that you’re a “bad reader” if you can’t stand unlikeable characters. I don’t buy the notion that there is such a thing [...]
Kater just posted a fantastic mini-treatise on how to go about being a writer and making a living at the same time. It’s a zero-bullshit warts-and-all treatment of the subject, but it communicates beautifully how important — and how rewarding — it is to find a way to do the things you love:
Sometimes [...]
I very much agree with what Robert Bausch has to say about likable characters:
You NEVER have to worry whether or not the reader “likes” your main character–or any of your characters for that matter. You only have to worry that the reader “knows” enough about your character to have an emotional investment in [...]
The arrival of the Agile movement was kind of a watershed event in the history of software development, because it gave the notion of iterative development a face, and a manifesto. The industry had historically focused on an aggressively monolithic, sequential lifecycle that relied on completely finishing one stage of the process before moving on [...]
I’ve added a publications page to the blog. Just a list of stories I’ve sold so far.
It was fun putting this together, a nice year-end what-happened-in-2008 survey. And I’m thinking about doing the inverse — compiling a list all of the year’s non-accomplishments: all the stories that were abandoned, or rejected, or left unfinished; [...]
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