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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

PLAN B OR C OR W

My semi-regular blogging about dinosaurs and writing fiction will resume later this month. For now, I’ll be blogging about travel. I’m spending about ten days in several UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS in the Caribbean with a travel

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FIVE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR WRITERS

I figure five is a manageable number, right? It isn’t betting everything on just one or two all-important resolutions. Nor is five so overwhelming that you can’t even commit them all to memory. So here

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BRIGHT, SHINY, NEW INSPIRATION

Why no, you shiny, seductive story idea, I am not–repeat NOT-about to chase after you, forgetting my vows to work faithfully on my current story all the way to the end. Because I’m all about

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SELLING IT AGAIN

I got word that I’ve resold a short story that came out last year, which means it’ll be reprinted in a different publication. This marks the first time that two different editors have bought the

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CAN’T WRITE DURING THE HOLIDAYS?

Here comes a block of time taking you away from the regular routine. Certainly a writer can carve out a slice of it for working on the story or the novel, right? How hard can

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IT STARTS EARLIER EVERY YEAR

No I’m not talking about the impending holidays; they’ve been in full swing for weeks now. I mean it’s barely mid-November, we’ve not had a hard frost yet, and already I’m getting notices urging me

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LIVE FROM WORLD FANTASY CON 2015

Here’s Analog editor Trevor Quachri rocking the Analog/Asimov’s party at WFC 2015 in Saratoga Springs, NY. This annual gathering of the clan of fiction writers, editors, artists, and agents focuses on mainly on fantasy, though

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THE 19TH MARKET

I recently sold a short story to the 19th market I tried. I first submitted this story to an editor almost exactly three years before it finally found a publisher. Why did selling the story

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