novel writing

Too much magic

I scratched the words across the yellow page of my legal pad in red: Too much magic. Underlined it. Then I looked at my manuscript, sat back, and realized I had a problem.
But, let’s come back to that in a minute. First I want to talk about how I got to that point.
Lately, I’ve been [...]

November 9th, 2009 | Comments (9)

I come from the future. No, really.

In the book world, life happens in 12-month cycles. We live in the future because we must, not always because we want to.  It’s a necessity, this living in the future, driven by the demands of the whole rumbling machine we call publishing.
It’s a fascinating process and I wish more readers could see what I [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Comments (4)