This weekend I ran across the rare writing tweet I could answer. While Mr. Nevair was happy with my answer, I thought others might get…
Another Obscure S-List Writer
Tag: writing
I think I am misdefining a genre. At the very least either I’m looking at the seam between two genres or reading one a bit…
In her essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion says that writing is an imposition on the privacy of the reader. Specifically, she says, “there’s no…
Where do you write? That might seem like a simple question to answer: at home, at work, wherever I can are obvious answers. For me,…
Lester Dent was a great author of the pulp era. His first published story in September 1929. His last published novel was in February 1959,…
Each of those characters embodies one or more things I want to talk about. A shortlist of those things could include gender roles and their relationship to sexual dimorphism in humanity, Orthodox Christianity, immigration, the Southwestern United States, the for purpose in life, my fears of aging, my fears of retiring, atonement and forgiveness, and a personal sense of moral worth or lack thereof.
Queen Takes Knight remains 80% finished. By the time I was writing it, I had started to drift away from the S&M world. As I gained distance, the passion for writing the first good F/m erotica or porn faded. The novel itself was less erotica; it had never really been porn and more a detective novel with three graphic sex scenes that advanced the plot. The graphic details could be cut without losing the story.
So H is for haunting, the artistic pinnacle of the writer. It is a writer’s imperishable fame.
It also has allowed me to understand why I haven’t liked a Hugo winner in over a decade, but reread books like The Coming of the Horseclans and The Man Who Never Missed. While fantasy and science-fiction reality genre, they are action novels in terms of content. Not everything I love is action, but a good deal of it is.
When someone sets out to become a self-supporting indie author there is a lot of discussion of finances. Discussions about being debt-free, having a healthy…
