Archive for August, 2006
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After having a debate of sorts about author genders in the SF and fantasy realm, I thought I’d bring the question to y’all.
Romance writing is, pretty much, assumed to be a women’s thing. Most romance writers, after all, are women. And women are traditionally much more interested in romantic notions than men. You don’t, for [...]
Breaking the rules
Rules, rules and more rules. There’s so many in writing. Some we’re required to follow, some that are suggested, but regardless of how they’re enforced, they are there.
I was typing a letter to my aunt today. And I actually caught myself adding unnecessary words to a sentence, because it would give me a higher word [...]
Serial Killer
How do you keep a series fresh? That’s my question today. Once you’re in world you’ve spent all this time creating and developing and you have these characters you love so much you wanna have their love-child, how do you keep each book from being same-old, same-old?
We’ve all read those series where you say, “I [...]
Writing Projects
So I’m going to blog today. Even though I’ve got tissue crammed up my nose and a cough that makes a smoker’s sound healthy. But sure, here I am. Blogging about… well, how about writing as an assignment.
Like if someone were to say, “Hey, Shelli, we want you to write a paranormal novella about a [...]
When I grow up…
I’m finally coming down off the high from Nationals.
Seeing all my writer buddies…
Taking awesome pictures…
Stalking my favorite authors…
Okay, so maybe not so much that last one. They were fairly easy to find since they all lined up in alphabetical order at the Literacy signing.
On to the part about me growing up. I don’t really want [...]
