I received some exciting news the other week. My application for the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop has been accepted. This is a relatively new writers’ workshop, put on by astronomers, whose mission is to teach
If you write fiction, you know the stories I have in mind, the ones that start with a neat idea or image, or character, or bit of dialog. The scene materializes. The characters rush forward
Some writers talk about times when they find they’ve “written themselves into a corner,” and what to do about it. For me, it feels more like having written my way step-by-step into the dark heart
As I glance out the window—and I wouldn’t dream of writing fiction in a room that doesn’t have a window—I see that the slushy rain has given way to steady snow, obscuring the last of
On Monday I signed and returned a contract for a new piece that will be published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. I’m simply thrilled to tell you that I’ve written a guest editorial for
Conventional wisdom says that we’re more likely to keep our New Year’s resolutions if they are specific and quantifiable rather than vague generalities. As writers, or at least for those of us who have not
‘Tis the season when I envy binge writers. You know the type that I mean. They take a few hours and produce half a story or a whole chapter of a novel. I’m much more
Now that NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month) has ended, some readers of this blog will be assessing their progress toward that goal of writing 50,000 words in one month. Make no mistake about it, that’s
Yes, yes, here comes that sense of golden possibilities when nothing but the very first sentence stares back at me like a path curving around the bend, daring me to set foot, to follow it
True confession: rewriting my stories is one of my favorite things to do. Yes, yes, I know that it would be more productive to go on to new projects. After all, I certainly have
