Have you ever sat there, eating KFC while you fantasize about Colonel Sanders, the founder and creator of such beautiful chicken? Well if you haven’t, you are missing out. Kentucky Fried Chicken has decided to solve this problem by giving a new book to the world as a free gift for Mother’s Day. The novella is […]
Rejections and failures are a huge part of life in general. And if you’re a writer, you get them all the time. I’ve gotten three rejections so far this week–and this actually makes me really happy. Right now, I’m in the process of submitting a novel, a graphic novel script, and three short stories […]
I set my writing goals lower this year because of having a new baby. But I am proud to report that I still can write with three young children. My Writing Goal for 2016 = 400 hours Actual Time I Spent Writing in 2016 = 530 hours That’s almost 1.5 hours per day. For comparison, I wrote […]
Deus ex machina literally means “God in the machine.” My first introduction to it was as a 15 year old reading the Greek tragedy Medea. Medea kills her children, but is saved, at the last moment, by the sun god sending down a chariot to take her away. The Greeks would actually use a crane […]
Just because you are writing speculative fiction, it doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. Your readers expect a cohesive, coherent world. That is why you need rule-based worldbuilding: you set up the rules of a world, and then you stick to them. This presentation was originally given at the ANWA 2016 Time Out […]