And I Feel Fine
Science fiction will save us.
“In the days before I got the bright idea to start writing novels, I ran that particular obstacle course. I dutifully ate the scorpions and walked the highwire, dredging up my childhood abuse and past relationships and anything else that seemed suitably dire to please a professor. It really makes for an alarming personality type:
In honor of Post a Rejection Letter Friday (in response to this crazy), here’s an oldie but a goodie: What’s Wrong with This Form Rejection?
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Yumyumyum. Should be out July 22nd. After I burned myself out on slash-and-hack fantasy, I started looking forward to Abraham’s books a whole lot more. They may not always be my cup of tea (more chicks with swords! [ok, really, everybody’s books need more of those]) but they are always damn interesting. I have yet
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Speaking of agentry, my buddy Colleen Lindsay is now a new agent for Fine Print Literary Management. Got novel? She’s looking for brand spanking new clients in fantasy, science fiction, pop culture, graphic novels, and maybe more. Check out her submission guidelines for details. Colleen is bloody awesome, and she’s the one who initially recommended
… Then market it as “literary” spec fiction, yo. The sight of 30 determined girls, many in headscarves, sparring and shadow-boxing, is extraordinary in Kabul. Women in burkas stalk the streets outside huddled against icy winds. The teenage boxers, none of whom is older than 18, are part of a new generation which has grown
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Mary Sue is a term originating in fan fiction, for a phenomenon that has probably existed since a Cro-Magnon teenager scratched a stick figure single-handedly slaying mammoths on a cave wall. The above is a short list of stuff you can do with your characters to avoid the Mary Sue syndrome: that is, the creation
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Gee, I hope so. In a discussion over at Torque Control about a review of the October/Nov 2006 issue of the Mag of SF/F, one commenter pointed out that, as writers/industry pros who knew the writers of these stories, we weren’t looking at the critiques the reviewer made objectively. We were concentrating on the critique
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“Occupation” is turning out to be one of those stories that, like “Genderbending,” I didn’t realize anybody actually liked, read, or cared about until a year after it was published. Now Occupation’s on a “notable stories of 2006” list and reprinted in a Year’s Best SF. And, to be honest, of the three stories I
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Plot should really be a very simple thing. Something bad happens to someone. Then things get worse. I’m pretty good at heaping on trouble, I’m just not sure that in the end, any of it makes any sense. Being a sort of “sit down and see what happens” writer, the whole process of discovery thing