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May 2014

May 23, 2014

The Power of Primary Sources

There's a neat guest post at Sarah Hoyt's blog about the importance to budding writers...

April 2014

April 12, 2014

How Not To Write A Best-Selling Fantasy Novel

This post was written in September of 2004, relative to a blog post about how...

April 02, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

Writing continued on Watchman for Daybreak in a somewhat desultory fashion; I had the flu...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Bleeding Delicately on the Page

Wonder of wonders, I actually got some fiction writing done this week. I've written the...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Writing the Scene

I've got a character, John St. Cloude, captain of the freezer ship Our Lady of...

November 2013

November 10, 2013

iPad Air: First Impressions

I've had an iPad 2 since they were first released, and I love it. It's...

November 07, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad Language

“Dang Brodell,” Emmett said. Actually that isn’t what he said. But about a year ago...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

City of the Beasts

A rare negative book review from January, 2003, of Isabel Allende's City of the Beasts....

October 22, 2013

Writing Tools: Hardware

I've been blogging for over ten years, but I've been doing it much more intentionally...

October 18, 2013

One Tomato at a Time

My energy level at work can be up, normal, or down. When it's up, things...

October 17, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Napoleon

But was he outraged! You might have thought he was Napoleon and she was asking...

October 14, 2013

It’s (Mostly) All Good

So, you may ask: this blog is a Catholic blog, on the Catholic Channel at...

October 11, 2013

Trollope’s Theory of Fiction

Your average genre novel is like a high speed car chase ending in a massive...

October 08, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Time and Conscience

The whole of Lucy’s behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore,...

October 08, 2013

Writing with Jigsaw Puzzles and Tinker Toys

Patricia Wrede says: Sometimes it seems that there are a zillion different metaphors for how...

October 07, 2013

You Got Erotica in my Peanut Butter

Author Sarah Hoyt has observed a disturbing trend: erotica is invading every other genre, for...

October 03, 2013

Wisdom and Knowledge

Mr. Magundi says, “The difference is simple,” Mr. Magundi replied. “Knowledge is progressive, and wisdom...

October 03, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Mr. Teatime

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror,...

October 01, 2013

The Hardest Language to Learn

A friend of mine from Poland was staying with us recently, and he pointed me...