Line Editing in 10 Easy Steps
I just finished revising the manuscript for my second novel, and I’ve got line editing on the brain. Here are ten easy steps you can take on that nearly-done manuscript that will significantly tighten...
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How Does the Story End?
As part of the planning process for how I’m going to wrap up my Jump 225 trilogy of novels, I’ve been thinking a lot about the structure of story. I think it’s useful for us writers and readers to...
View ArticleWhat Works on an Author Website?
I’m currently in the process of reworking my Infoquake website to conform with the new cover design, and creating a MultiReal website to match. I feel like the Infoquake website design hasn’t held up...
View ArticleHacked
Ack. We been hacked. I’m working to upgrade our WordPress installation and fix the problem, but in the meantime be patient. (And if you need something to read in the meantime, we’ve got lots of...
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How to Write a Novel (Part 1)
One of the Ten Commandments of Author Blogging is “thou must write a post explaining how thou writest thine novels.” And so, in an effort to save my immortal writerly soul from scribbler’s purgatory,...
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How to Write a Novel (Part 2)
So you decided to write a novel, you committed yourself to the task, and you agonized your way through your first draft — as described in How to Write a Novel (Part 1). Now one of two things will...
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Building Character(s)
You’ve read the reviews, you’ve heard the slams, you’ve witnessed the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism. You’ve heard that such-and-such author has “flat,” “paper-thin,” or “two-dimensional”...
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“MultiReal”: The First Drafts
One of the fun little promotional things I did for Infoquake was to post all the first drafts of chapter 1. You got to see the journey of the book from something I doodled on in 1997 or 1998 to the...
View ArticleAnd Now a Word from Your Friendly Neighborhood Webmaster
DeepGenre is transferring web hosts and upgrading WordPress installations in the process (after which it will walk and chew gum at the same time). Everything should look exactly the same to you after...
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Wordle DeepGenre Tag Cloud
Well, this is rather cool. From Jo Prichard, a Java tag cloud from the articles on DeepGenre. Hosted on Wordle. Click on the image to see the full-size cloud.
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