Sarah Kanning

It’s an interesting topic, and Reinhardt made it a delightful read, full of quirky asides and the kinds of details writers find eminently useful. If the story you are writing has a sword in it, you should read this book.

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Here’s a great place to start: 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work, courtesy of Jerry Oltion and the folks at SFWA.
I appreciated this list because, like the author, I find that any productivity strategy that works for me does not work forever — the work-avoidance part of my brain is far too clever for that.

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I’ve been thinking about On Writing, Stephen King’s memoir/writing treatise a lot in the last two days, because Monday morning I awoke to some medium-to-severe back pain. A trip to a massage therapist didn’t help, and it felt even worse today. Grrr. In general, I lead a largely pain-free existence, and on days like these [...]

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Today I want to applaud the careful work of Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat, author of Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (which I’ll call DLIAM after this for the sake of brevity), part of Daily Life series from Greenwood Press.
I mentioned the series awhile back, and said I found the quality of the books in the series [...]

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Skipping the writer’s bookshelf for the moment to plug an online tool I use all the time: WorldCat (www.worldcat.org). No, it doesn’t have anything to do with cats, unfortunately — the “cat” is short for catalog, and it’s (among other things) an aggregator of  information from libraries all over the world about their holdings.
If you [...]

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