Why Going Without An Advance Might Be A Good Thing
It’s becoming more common to see authors being represented by e publishers and indie presses who aren’t getting advances. It’s by no means the norm, but it’s a growing movement. Initially a lot of my writing buddies reacted with the kind of horror normally reserved for finding a decomposing corpse at the foot of [...]
An Outsider’s Look At Publishing, As Of June 2011
While I would love to say I’m an insider, I’m very much on the outside of publishing looking in. If it was colder my nose would be frozen to the window. There’s a lot going on in publishing right now, but that statement has been true for at least the last ten years. E-books [...]
Should Writers Self Publish Short Stories?
Should you self publish short stories? I wish I had a definitive answer for you, but sadly as always, the answer is maybe. Since I just put up my stories The Long Tour and Night Record on Kindle and Smashwords, it would be hypocritical of me to say no…but there are some traps and pitfalls [...]
Working Through Pain
How do you decide whether or not to keep writing when life throws you a curve ball? We recently had another couple of earthquakes here in Christchurch, and while they weren’t as bad as the February quake, it caused more damage, more anxiety and more heartache. I was drinking a coffee and thinking [...]
YA Saves.
I wasn’t going to stick my oar in on this, partly because I’m not a YA author (yet, next book maybe), but in the end I think I have to say something. Before going any further I’m going to say that I would never have said anything if it wasn’t for this article by Kiera [...]
Trauma, Life Experience and Writing
We’re often told, by writers better and more experienced than ourselves, to go out and get some life experience before we put fingers to keyboard. It’s hard to write about life, even a life with goblins in it, if you haven’t experienced some of it. It’s hard to know what they really mean though. [...]
Buh
So, today has been something of utility day. I’m sure none of you need to hear in any great detail about me fixing my house’s rain spouting. So instead I’m going to recommend you go and read Chuck Wendig’s blog www.terribleminds.com It’s not safe for work, but so few things really are. I hope things [...]
Writers and Depression
I’ve written about this before, but I wanted to post an update. Let me preface this by saying that I am not a Doctor, I haven’t even played one in a movie. If anything I say contradicts your Doctor’s advice, believe them, not me. So, I have depression. It’s easier to admit these days, [...]
Always Sleep On It
Being a writer is full of big moments, tied together with tiny triumphs and little tragedies. I had a big moment on the day of my birthday when, as sometimes happens on thirtieth birthdays, I hit rock bottom despair at about 3pm. I was completely down in the dumps and ready to give away writing [...]
Will E-Books Save Short Stories?
I’ve long been given the impression that writing short fiction was a mechanically useful, financially futile thing to do. Unless you’re Neil Gaiman or Stephen King the chances of getting more than beer money selling short stories seemed…slim. It was still a good thing to do, nothing like professional credits to make your query [...]
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