My Internet’s been running really slowly this week, and my reigning thesis for why is that most of the bandwidth for my local cable provider is being gobbled up by the ten trillion people all trying to download Diablo III. … Continue reading
The one thing that is garaunteed to kill creativity and stop your writing career in it’s tracks is Resistance with the big “R”. The kind of resistance I’m talking about is the preconditioned part of ourselves that really doesn’t like … Continue reading
As mentioned last week, changes in technology can be an issue with remakes. Generally, the isn’t a problem for period pieces and works set in an older era; the technology is well understood and can be replicated. Works set in … Continue reading
Writing is different than most professions because it’s one where you are not judged on potential. An author doesn’t get his book published by filling out a resume, he gets it by having a solid manuscript in the hands of … Continue reading
Well, this is a day late (okay, okay, a day and a week late), but I had good reason: last week, my website got hacked hard. Not going into details, but it was enough to make Google wince at the … Continue reading
Managing your creativity is one of the difficult parts about being a writer. Now this may sound like an odd concept because most people view creativity as something that we react to. We often describe inspiration as something that strikes, … Continue reading
I blame B. Kliban. Among his many cartoon books is one with a title that embodies a perfectly sensible piece of advice: Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Own Head. He could have been talking about the book I’m currently … Continue reading
Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction?. io9 and James W. Harris seem to think so. The SF section in the Kindle store is crowded with unknowns all trying to make their mark. I’ve got reason to be curious about … Continue reading
With all this talk about wikis (I’m considering changing the name of the series of Magra-wiki Diary at this rate), I feel I’ve gotten a little far afield from my original premise: how to build worlds for your fan-to-pro project, … Continue reading
Earlier in the current draft of Flight of the Vajra (the project whose creation inspired this series of articles), my story broke. I was in the middle of a scene when I stopped to look something up in the project … Continue reading