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So here we are at the end of January. I set a pretty ambitious schedule for myself this year, so let’s take a look at the scoreboard. Edits on Ink Calls to Ink are officially at the halfway point, which was my goal. I hope to finish edits in February. Part of the push to
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I’m not certain how it happened, but my writing group all writes speculative fiction. But within that, there’s a pretty wide range of styles. The other day, one of my friends in the group posted about an interest in writing horror. Up until that point, I knew that Nicole did sci-fi and urban fantasy. But
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There’s an argument made about the rise of police powers, that you only have to worry about it if you’re breaking the law. I can understand why people would want to believe that. The idea that we live in constant threat of unfair persecution from powers far beyond our control is a terrifying one. But
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If your fingers are on the pulse of the RPG circuit, you’ve probably heard that a new, 5th edition of D&D is on the way. Heck, even the New York Times is talking about it. Most of the world will only blink and take no notice. I mean, this game gets revised time to time, right?
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Remember that post from November about Perspective? (No? It’s okay. I’ve linked to it.). It came back to me after the editing/rewriting I worked on last night for my next novel. The entire chapter was one scene–a street brawl between one of the three primary POV characters and someone posing a threat to his client.
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First off, Happy New Year. Welcome to 2012. If the Mayans were right, the clock is ticking. If basic human biology is right, it’s already ticking–it’s just that we’ll all wind down at different times. On that cheery note, let me spin you a tale and share what I’m working on for the first part
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It’s not that I believe that the Mayans had some insider information on when the world would end. If they knew that, surely they would have seen the collapse of their own empire, right? But damned if I don’t love a deadline, even an artificial one. And what’s more of a deadline than the end
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Here it is Christmas Eve. I’ve got a roast elf cooling on the stove top and a candy cane bourbon smoothie in the blender. Let’s take a moment to talk about games. And by that, I mean Role Playing Games (or RPG to my geeky brethren) Earlier this year I worked on a role-playing game
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Pausing on the slow decent into madness that is the holiday season, it occurs to me to take stock. Sure, 2011 isn’t over yet, but I can New Years from my window, so it’s good enough. Anything that comes up between now and then will be a pleasant surprise, the icing on the gingerbread cookie,
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I’m the kind of guy who needs to write novels with an outline firmly in place. Now, it’s nothing too super-detailed. In the case of No Escape from Planet Motherfucker, it consists of four pages, and about 1,700 words, a chunk of which is character notes. I have each chapter notated with a few sentences
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Tales from the Ragged Edge 