Last night I took part in a pitch contest in a bar in Eugene. There’s a new Bookpub opening up early next year called Eugene Hodgepodge. It’s both bar and bookstore (and hopefully will have coffee, too, but they haven’t said.) They hosted an event last night at another local brew pub called Arable. In […]
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#66: “After all, not you’re entirely wrong about BeltSec”
Hearken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear… Read More »
That’s right! I am returning once again to posting the Sentence of the Day! For the next several months, I expect all the sentences to be chosen from somewhere within that day’s progress on Careless, the sequel to Thoughtless. If I’m going to have it out and ready by August of next year, I need
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Once again, it’s First Page Feedback! Today, we have Asylum Street, a work in progress from Rolf Semprebon. The First Page Setting We learn from the very first line that we’re in Oregon in 1880. The next paragraph tells us more specifically East Portland. And what does East Portland, Oregon, look like in 1880? We
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Welcome back to my First Page Critique. Today we have Knights of Madness by Seán Hill. This one is from a piece of flash fiction. Basically, it’s very short fiction – anywhere from 1-4 pages or so. Seán has a FAQ about Flash Fiction on his Twitter (now X) pinned tweet (or whatever they’re called
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A popular thing to do at writers’ conferences and science fiction conventions is the ORC, or Open Read and Critique. Participants, who can range from professional to aspiring writers, will usually go around in a circle and read the first page of a manuscript and everybody else will give feedback on it. I’ve often found
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#64: “I didn’t trick you,” Caweys said. “You just didn’t ask.”
He can be a jerk sometimes… Read More »
#63: “Not a fan of rabbit, I take it?”
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#62: The threat was clear, though.
A precisely calculated ambiguity Read More »
