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Category: writing
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Finals Week
So today is a chemistry exam, tomorrow Microbiology, and Thursday Latin Literature in the Americas… I’m fried. Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with photos (I think I can manage that much…) and in the meantime, here’s an interesting link, and sort of college related. 3-D Printed Pizza Natural Machines, a startup out of Barcelona,…
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Smelling Sweetly
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” –William Shakespeare When I am writing fiction, I don’t worry too much about names, either of characters or of books. I think I have a story somewhere in which the main character has no name. You see,…
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No More Modifiers
People are people. Not polka-dot people, or purple people, or people of hue, or any other modifier. Just people. Stop trying to make the differences more obvious, learn to embrace that life is risky, and quit manipulating the language for your own inane agendas, darn it! More at Mad Genius Club…
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This is Your Brain on Bugs
I’m sitting in microbiology class listening to a lecture on diseases of the gastrointestinal system and when my professor shared an article I had a small revelation. I’ve pondered before the links between stress and creativity, the oft-repeated claims that depression is necessary for the creative, and the connections between mental illness and writers. But…
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Pixie Noir: Snippet 12
Pixie Noir is now available for sale in print, and ebook. Enjoy, and let me know what you thought! If you want to read all the snippets first, start here, Sunday Snippets. ************ “Among other things.” “When can we start?” “Let’s go up on deck.” I stepped out into the hall and looked both ways,…
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Writing Process
It’s not the same for any of us, this process of creation, but I’ve found that sometimes I’ll read about what someone else is doing and it clicks for me. Over at Mad Genius Club this morning I elaborate on what I was thinking and doing as I wrote Pixie Noir, hoping that perhaps I…
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It is written l…
It is written like this: “I checked out with K 19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the…
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Reading Noir
I’m beginning to write Trickster Noir, the sequel to Pixie Noir. To get into the mood, I’m reading noir fiction. I’ve been looking for recommendations, and was given a nice list by friends. For Pixie, I was reading Spillane and Louis L’Amour’s detective stories. I’d been reading Hammett a few months before I started writing…
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Ray Bradbury
A response to ‘symbol-hunting’ as conducted by the literature teachers of academia. (Click on the picture for great responses by famous authors to a young man’s questions on their work and symbolism.) Bradbury finished his responses to the intrepid young scholar with ““Not much to say except to warn you not to get too serious…
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Learning and Writing
Mirror-posted from Amazing Stories this morning. I have been pondering school, learning in general, and this past semester in particular as it is drawing to a close. I am taking a Composition and Literature class not for any other reason than the school requires it, and it’s been a mixed experience for me. But on…
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Pixie Noir: Snippet 11
I thought this would be the last snippet, but you will get one more before the book is available for sale. For a sense of perspective, Pixie Noir is over 95K words long, and in the snippets total there will be about 24K words. You are only a quarter of the way through the story,…