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Whew!

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · editing and revising

I’ve finally finished the new ending of the novel in progress. Yay! Now to go back to the beginning and start cranking through various rounds of revisions. The new ending came about as part of a revision on the story/plot level. Now that the story is (I hope) solid, I can focus on making the [...]

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wisdom of the controlled burn

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized, editing and revising, general, productivity

I’m back at work today and there to greet me is a shiny new operating system on my work computer. In some ways it’s a lost day, since I have to install and configure a bunch of widgets, get all my devices talking to one another again, et cetera, et cetera. On the plus side, [...]

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thank you, Twitter

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments · book review, editing and revising, general

Remember when Blaise Pascal wrote, “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter”? (That was in 1656 so I’m using “remember” a bit loosely, since none of us was there. Anyway.) Twitter provides a needed corrective for the expansive nature of electronic communications. When you are printing [...]

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Saving yourself from (your own) stereotyped characters

July 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · character development, editing and revising, generating ideas

A few months back, I ran across a huge controversy about The Stolen Word, a short story by Lisa Mantchev, which was published in Fantasy Magazine and immediately came under criticism for its portrayal of “peddlers,” which many readers took to be thinly disguised Roma (aka Gypsies) or Tinkers (a distinct racial group in Ireland [...]

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