So… that’s good, right?
Sentence of the Day #114: My head felt like it wanted to split open, which I took as an encouraging sign that it hadn’t.
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Meanwhile, in an inn in the desert…
I have finished my short story, and sent it off for submission last night. So, starting today, I’m returning to Yagmar, where we pick up in the middle of a fight scene. Also, returning to the Sentence of the Day! #113: She spun, kicked me hard in the chest before falling to the floor and
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Norwescon 44 – Pat’s Notes – Part 5
The fifth panel I went to over the weekend was Saturday’s “Advanced Character Creation“ Character-creation templates, which new writers can download and use, are everywhere on the internet. But what actually goes into making you feel a character’s wounds and triumphs? How do working writers approach character creation? How do you develop a character hook
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Norwescon 44 – Pat’s Notes – Part 4
My notes from the 11am Saturday panel 4/16/2022 Dames, Damsels, & Dynamite The young ladies of young adult literature are seldom well-behaved. What empowers these budding women? What are the secrets to their success? It’s more than just dynamite or lacing up combat boots. This panel will help tell us what makes these women explode
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Norwescon 44 – Pat’s Notes – Part 3
At Noon on Friday was the panel “The Legal Ramifications of Monster Hunting” This was a fun one. The panelists were all lawyers, iirc. From the program guide: Paranormal stories, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and Wynonna Earp, often feature slayers and hunters of vampires, demons, and other supernatural monsters. But if that sort of thing
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Norwescon 44 – Pat’s notes – Part 2
The first panel Friday morning, at 10, was “Representation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Where’s the Line?” From the program description: Whether you are a career writer or a complete newbie, writing diverse characters can quickly cross into cultural appropriation. Can new writers learn where that line is and learn how to avoid crossing it before they
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Notes from Norwescon 44 Part 1
Last weekend, I was at Norwescon 44. I wasn’t on any panels and didn’t work in the dealers room this time, so I had lots of time to be in panel audiences. I took lots of notes. So, here they are. Success on Another Planet – 3pm From the description:News flash: The universe is not
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Review: Enter the apocalypse
Last weekend at Norwescon, I picked up a book in the dealers room: Enter the Apocalypse, an anthology of apocalypse stories (as opposed to one of my favorite genres, the post-apocalypse story, which the same publisher also has an anthology of.) Anyway, since it’s a collection of short stories by different authors, rather than review
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Thoughtless: Chapters and Word Counts
I knew partway through the first draft of Thoughtless that I was going to want it to be around 100,000 words. My first draft was written by hand in a series of notebooks. While writing Yellow Tape and Coffee, I just picked up whatever notebooks I could find for cheap, usually between $.50 and $1.00
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He’s a little slow sometimes
#112: I was beginning to think I shouldn’t have come here.
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