[SFT] Takes the Plunge
I know it’s not a hundred percent ready, and it’s not even fifty percent ready, but if I’ve learned anything over the past few months, it’s this: Ready? What does […]
Category Archives: Writing
The Thing about Sci-Fi
“I’m writing a science fiction novel,” I say. Most people, especially those who have known me in previous lives, ask the question that my statement begged. “Why?” The answer is […]
SFT Has A New Name (Experiment’s Over, Results Are In)
In July 2014, I started an experiment with a blog called “Science | Fiction | Technology”. On December 31, 2014, I wrote the final post on that blog. Today, I killed […]
A Write to the Finish: NaNoWriMo and the Better Life
The universe converged during this WriMo’s 2014 win moment. This year’s NaNo wasn’t about just surviving – 2014 was about thriving. Love and the spirit of this annual worldwide novel-ing November made […]
How I Wrote My Manuscript (Or, How NaNoWriMo Saved My Life)
There is this legendary thing I have heard tell of a writer’s passion – write or die. I’ve felt it burn through my veins only twice in my life: last […]
On Revision: How, Exactly, Do I Murder My Darlings?
After boiling my novel down to Just One Thing and identifying some crap, I need to decide what to do with it all. Here is how, exactly, I am going to […]
Getting Started: A NaNoWriMo Basics Refresher
November first is fast approaching, and that means hoards of novelists across the world are clanging their swords upon shields in anticipation. To bring my brain back into battle, I’m recalling […]
On Revision: A Useful Tool for Deciding What to Keep, Rework and Cut
When my fingers were tip-tapping out words by the hundreds or thousands each day last year, I didn’t think about what needed to happen to get from that first draft […]
Chapter 1
She yelled into his ear again. He was late, she screeched, and he had parked too far away. The man held the phone away from his ear for a moment […]
Just Keep Going: Finally Getting to My Theme
He’s making me boil my novel down to One Thing. Your novel needs to be about One Thing, he tells me! I fight it. It can’t be just about One […]
