I started out my workday this morning looking for (and finding) a sketchbook among my many notebooks and blank project books. Followed by staring at the blank pages, with an array of drawing tools in front of me, and with my Muse going, “No, no, no, no, no…” “I need to see these things,” I muttered, and Muse said, “I … Continue reading →
CANCELLED WebinarJam has crashed every time but one on this, with people unable to reach rooms I’m in. I’ve checked my links, I’ve checked their links, and at this point, the only thing I can do to stop wasting people’s time is give up. I’m going to see if there’s some way to do this same process with Skype. I’ll … Continue reading →
I have no time for people who wear their causes on a ribbon, or on their car bumper, and who think this means they’re doing something. I have all the time in the world for people who look at their causes, ask “What could I personally do right now to make this happen?…and then do it. This is a website … Continue reading →
I did that interview with Simon Whistler… http://rockingselfpublishing.com/author/simon/ (link opens in new tab) …that went live last Tuesday, and from doing that interview I bumped into Hugh Howey, and from doing that, I encountered an entire series of links to writers who have done the HARD math on self-publishing. I’m only giving you two. There are many, but these two are CRITICAL … Continue reading →
I posted this as a response to a comment about office supplies and role-playing games in one of the “Write A Book With Me” posts. But I realized I’m curious. How many of you who write are or have also been role-playing gamers? (D&D, GURPS, another system…whatever. If you’ve sat in a room with friends talking your way through an … Continue reading →
My MC has a 1-bedroom apartment at the Parkchester Apartments at 2000 East Tremont Avenue, in the Bronx. She’s a professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, at 15 E. 84th St., New York. I know that, leaving from home, she can take the train from the Lexington Avenue station to get to work. However, what … Continue reading →
I’ve been doodling on the “dreaming the dead” novel, and pulling together themes and concepts and characters. Nothing much on paper, yet—some clusters, some questions.
Continue reading →Tam sent me a link to an animated map of the Middle East and surrounding territory through the ages. The thing is silent, completely apolitical, and absolutely astonishing. Take a look. It’s a visual of 5000 years of history in 90 seconds, and well worth the time. Actually, all the maps are pretty mind-blowing. I’ve got to get back to … Continue reading →
So I got to reading about quantum entanglement and thinking about how it could be used in with worldbuilding to create a magic system. Quantum entanglement is the extraordinarily cool fact that quanta—the very, very smallest, indivisible particles that are force carriers for the matter of the universe—form connected pairs, and these pairs have connections to each other that are … Continue reading →
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Researching something to pass on to one of my Worldbuilders, and ended up here half a dozen times. Fantastic site. Note: It’s an OLD reference work: some of its entries are outdated, and some are flat-out wrong. Nonetheless, the majority of what’s in there is solid, and the remainder is, if nothing else, … Continue reading →
