Month: February 2010

  • I’m In The News

    Well, sort of. There’s a nice article about me in the Dallas Speculative Fiction Examiner. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • SavvyAuthors.com Membership Contest Winners

    I read every comment twice. Thank you to every single one of you who played. Every entry was excellent. There was no way I could choose ten on my own. I went to Random.org’s True Random Number Generator, generated ten random numbers, and one of the ten was for a long-time reader here who had…

  • My Mistake, Your Gain–A Fun Drawing for 10 Free Memberships

    My newsletter introducing the workshop I’m teaching for SavvyAuthors.com [LINK CORRECTED] started like this: So. In the midst of my current insane seventy-hour-a-week work schedule, I got this crazy question. It was “How would you like to do a free writing workshop for our site?” Now, in most cases, the answer to the question “How…

  • My New Free Writing Workshop

    I’m teaching a “free or really, really cheap” writing workshop called Crash Revision: How To Revise Your Novel In 7 Days. Mine is a general course, geared to writers in every genre—it’s not romance-specific. My workshop is part of the 2010 Writers’ Boot Camp at SavvyAuthors.com. I also have two items in the “book raffle,”…

  • It’s been an awful week

    So here I am on Friday night, haven’t managed a weblog entry, haven’t managed to write fiction all week. I’ve been absolutely buried in Lesson 14 for HTRYN. Could not figure out how to show people what they need to do related to revising Simple Time in their novel. I had the whole lesson outlined,…

  • If you’re reading TalysMana, please read this

    What Is A First Draft? I’ve added it to pages for new folks to find. It’s important. Please take a few minutes to read it. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • “Write A Book With Me” Is Moving

    First, a note. The Write A Book With Me entries are going to be going to the TalysMana weblog after this entry. If you’re playing or following Write A Book With Me, be sure to bookmark the TalysMana weblog now. Pocket Full Of Words will be going back to the essays, commentary on writing, and…

  • The NEW TalysMana Artifact (and Upcoming Contest)

    Yesterday Becky posted her first rough concept sketch for what the Fendle Warrior’s Heart would look like. I meant to come in here last night and post the link, but after writing 4000+ words of lesson, I was just too fried. Today, though, I wanted to let you know her sketch is up. It’s SO…

  • 4000 words

    I wrote 4000 words on Lesson 13 tonight, and finished it, but I’m done. Back tomorrow. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • A nice little cliffhanger

    Since ecto ate my post TWICE now, I’m going to keep this short. Got a spiffy cliffhanger for TalysMana tonight, wrapped the scene, posted it, and some folks may even receive it yet tonight. Most of you who are up to date will get the latest installment on Friday. For everyone else, it’ll be along…