Generating worlds, exploring them, losing the thread.
I see I haven’t posted an item since 17 March. Excuses range from “I’ve been too busy to blog” and “I’m suffering a multi-tasking deficiency” to “I’ve sustained a fit of sanity, wherein I see no percentage in posting elaborate messages into the Void.”
Mostly, though, I’ve been in thrall to a fiction project, a series of speculative novels. The Muse, revealing herself as a dominatrix this time around, has shacked up with me big time. (I speak only figuratively, … Read more
Well, maybe just a few.
A writer should find a good chair, e.g. Install it right there in front of computer, pencil & pad, whatever, and then sit in it for extended periods, writing stuff.
Here’s a real lode of good advice from The Guardian—10 rules for writing fiction from each of a bunch of prominent writers.
And here are five tips of my own, something I recently added to advice emerging from a Clarion Science Fiction and … Read more
Come meet the authors (seven of them, at least).
Bangkok Noir
Book launch, open to the public
8pm: FCCT (Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand)
Maneeya Building, Penthouse Floor; enter the building from the Chidlom BTS Station, southwest exit.
Official book launch
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT)
8.00pm, 17 March 2011
Book signing
Kinokuniya, Siam Paragon Branch
3.00pm–6.00pm, 2 April 2011
For more information, please visit www.bangkoknoir.info.… Read more
In the old days, writers sharpened pencils, checked the mail, experimented with melismatic renditions of “I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay,” polished the piano (the rich writers, I mean) and so on. Classic avoidance behavior, right? Anything’s better than actually getting down to the hard business of writing.
Maybe not. Or at least maybe not entirely. I’m not the first to suggest that all the screwing around may well be a vital part of the creative process. … Read more