Call me brazen for even suggesting that I know better than anyone else how to do politics–but that’s what blogs are for. While this blog usually focuses on science fiction and fantasy writing, it has, on occasion, gone off the cuff. I have a way to pass Healthcare legislation. If a Representative or [...]
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How to Pass Healthcare Legislation Leave a comment
The Thrill of Deadlines, and How to Meet Them Alive. 2 comments
(Corrected: eliminated all the bad advice about the two week story) That race to a deadline is fun and satisfying. It’s a test to see if you can pull it off, get that story done and out by the time that clock strikes. But you have to plan ahead, or else you’ll be turning in [...]
How to do a House Party Right Leave a comment
I attended a house party Saturday night–sort of like the one pictured here. I’ve heard of things like this. Anne-Louise Genest explained a bit of the history of the kind of music she was playing with Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry that evening–how it might happen in a kitchen. The intimate setting was right. Miche [...]
How not to write Fantasy: The Forbidden Kingdom 2 comments
The movie is based on one of the oldest known novels, Journey to the West, a Chinese Epic. Written down finally in the 1590s from oral stories dating much farther back, it’s 100 chapters long and is one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature, so any screenwriter would have challenges in writing up [...]
