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Everyone always calls agents the gatekeepers. This is silly. Agents aren’t gatekeepers. Agents’ assistants are gatekeepers. So keep that in mind the next time you think an assistant is beneath you. Okay, really, no one reading my journal right now is a Douchebag McAsshole that would condescend an assistant. But some day I’ll be popular…
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Like most geeks, I saw The Avengers opening weekend. Like many geeks, I saw it more than once. Yes, it was that good. I did not know if it was going to be good. I was hesitantly pessimistic, but after 99% glowing reviews from people I know (some of whom I actually trust), I gave…
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Two ideas that have been bouncing around my head that I wanted to write down. I want to write a city whose nickname is the Ever-Blossoming City. Every time the monarch dies, the core of the city is torn down and rebuilt in a style dictated by the new monarch. In years of plague or…
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I am not in between drafts, but I’ve already started to see the critical weaknesses in the draft I’m writing. Perhaps the most challenging thing for a pantser is that so much of the first draft is spent getting to know your characters and your setting. Sometimes you know them right away. Sometimes it takes…
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So do you remember back on April 3rd, when I was complaining about how I hadn’t been writing that much? Well, I hadn’t, and it was frustrating. Work was sucking the creativity out of my brain. I worked late. I worked more when I got home. I worked on weekends. That’s how publishing goes. Like…
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So unless you live under a log (in which case you have a secret base and I want to come visit), you heard that the Department of Justice sued Apple and 5/6 of the Big Six today (Random House was not included). Of the five publishers, three settled to avoid the legal costs. Two, Macmillain…
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I have a blog? Oh that’s right, I do! And here I am posting to it. Let me tell you, it’s a sign of how much I love you that I’m spending my precious few minutes of free time to say hello. Hello! All my December titles have already turned over. What’s that? It’s April?…
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Before we begin, watch this. You can thank me in the comments. Alright, now that you’ve watched that two or three (or twenty) times, let’s continue, shall we? I have a draft post that I’ve been working on for weeks. This isn’t it. It’s a picture of my bookshelf. When I envisioned that post last…