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New Blog Feature – Open Combox 2nd Saturdays
Anne Faye and Elena Maria Vidal have kindly stepped forward to round out Catholic Fiction Saturdays — thank you! After some conferring in the dark recesses of Blog Central Command, we’ve decided that rather than fill in the last fiction opening, we’re going to experiment with a new all-genres blog […]
Writing The Alien Alien
For the writer of speculative fiction, there’s a dodge most of us use—the human dressed in the alien suit. I don’t mean the guy dressed in a serape, lederhosen, Zulu head-ring, and carrying a samurai sword and boomerang (though it does make for an interesting picture); no, rather an alien […]
Writing: Setting and Keeping Realistic Goals
Anybody who’s been watching me on Facebook knows I’m on a mission: to build up to writing 3000 words a day, five days a week, on the my work in progress. (So this does not count blogs, website content, short stories that hit out of the blue, e-mail etc.) Some […]
Who is that, and what is she doing in my living room?
I was sick this weekend, but not that sick, which meant I was forced to lounge in the hammock and read books. (I know!) And there’s nothing like reading a book to make me stumble across editing complaints. –> Remember here, I am a fellow beginning writer. I’m not looking […]
The Lie of Writer’s Block
Has your plumber ever canceled an appointment because “the pipes aren’t talking to me?” Have you ever heard of an architect who wouldn’t finish designing a building because he’s not “feeling it”? Yet the most common reason writers give for not writing is “writer’s block.” I don’t believe in writer’s […]
Coming Up with Blogging Content
“How do you write so much?” Usually, answering this by saying that I either (a) have to keep the voices in my head quiet or (b) that I have a lot to say doesn’t satisfy the people asking. So here you go. Here’s the secret to how I come up […]