“God’s War is a 97,000 word fantasy novel of faith, blood, betrayal and submission played out in the contaminated deserts of Nasheen, a matriarchal state engaged in a centuries-old holy war with polygamous Chenja.” Hm, no, that’s not right. I typed: Polygamous. No, that means multiple partners of either sex. What’s more than one wife? […]
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The only thing I hate drafting more than query letters are synopses. That’s going to be next. And I just printed out GW AGAIN so I can go through ANOTHER round of line edits. I hacked and combined several chapters during the last pass, and I need to make sure those run smoothly. I’ve also
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I picked up a copy of The Good German at Heathrow, mainly because it has this winning first line: “The war had made him famous.” This is a beautifully written thriller set in Berlin just after the German surrender during WWII. The novel revolves around the murder of a nobody American soldier (in the Russian-occupied
In general, I’m a fan of brutal critiques. I don’t need anybody pussy-footing around my ego. If I’ve written a shit story, I need to know it was a shit story. The reverse of that, however, is that if I’ve written a good story, I need to know it was a good story. This may
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Some stuff you don’t often hear about being done by women. Women Gladiators: Wiki Gladiatrix Journal of Combative Sport Women Bullfighters: La Diosa Rubia A Few Fighters Marie Barcelo
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Today was the first time since I moved that I managed to finish the entirety of my morning weights routine. Depression, laziness, and an inadequate room set-up for working out were keeping me from bothering to do it properly. Some of it is also that I don’t have a fixed time for getting up in
… while I finish the third round of GW line edits. Line edits are the worst part of the whole process for me. The big revision stuff, that’s fun. The actual writing, the revising while writing, the outlining, etc. Fine, fine. The line edits? The round after round of line edits? Pure torture. A Perfect
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I moved in with my buddies Ian & Stephanie a few weeks ago, after they graciously offered to put me up rent-free until I can get my staggering credit card debt and jobless (ie temp work only, no perm position) situation all sorted out. Much of my silence has been because of moving logistics, sorting