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Stoking the fire
There are a lot of little things I do to try to keep the fires lit in terms of creativity. I usually go back to Orson Scott Card’s “idea net” when I start talking about it. He wrote about this in his...
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Creativity = coffee + the crazy
My big “I should write fiction” epiphany came after the six or seven hundredth time someone told me I was interesting or unique or probably under-medicated. There comes a point at which, if you don’t...
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The Conservation of Energy
I’m a creative. This is no boast or grandiose proclamation. I am a creative. I must create things. I’ve been very lucky, for the past fifteen years, to make a decent living at being creative. Back when...
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Live Like a Bourgeois But Walk Like an Egyptian
Gustave Flaubert said “You must live like a bourgeois and save all your violence for your art.” But what the hell did that jackass know? For years, I was deeply suspicious of Flaubert’s idea. It wasn’t...
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Bad to the bone… of the story
Paul Tobin This week, the topic is villains, and just how bad these bad boys should be. And, as always in regards to “rules for authors,” the answer is… that depends. Like anything else, a villain is...
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Need Inspiration? Expand Your Horizons
The Tainted City on the shelf at B&N Before getting to this week’s actual topic, I’m sorry, I must squee: look what I saw in my local Barnes & Noble yesterday! That’s right, The Tainted City,...
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Blockbusting
Grrr. What I really need is some inspiration for this post… *closes eyes, clenches jaw, rubs temples, murmurs mantra* Anything? No? Nothing? Oh well then, here goes anyway. So, what do I do when I hit...
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Learning To Juggle
Last night, I was sitting around with The Spouse watching Romantics Anonymous, an adorably uncomfortable French flick. Mr. Savidge Reads (and juggles) After it was done, we were talking about the...
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I rarely have a problem coming up with ideas. In fact, my problem is too many ideas. Every news story and history book has me sitting there saying, “what if …” Right now I’ve got beehive mountains,...
View ArticleSF/F: Ghetto or Gangnam?
Or Are We The Popular Kids Yet? Betsy Dornbusch (whose book Exile launches in eBook tomorrow! Woot!) When I was a kid I saw Star Wars IV seventeen times in the theater. I got a lot of street cred in...
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