Hello, Alesia here. Lately, I’ve been trying to come up with a rough estimate of how much draft work that Michael and I have accomplished on Seven for a Secret. My best guess is that we’ve gotten about one-quarter of it down. As in, solidly down. As in, I catch myself going back to re-read what we’ve written because I […]
It’s been a long week already. If you’re feeling the word-load like we are, I’d like to share with you a fun bit of geekery to brighten your day, and maybe give you something fun to discuss this weekend. This colorful flow chart, according to the article, covers 3800 years of the evolution of the alphabet, “all the way back […]
Today’s writers and authors have to learn how to wear many hats in order to get their words in front of readers, but in my view, the worst is editing. I hate editing. I really do. Michael says I’ve got a good eye for it, and maybe that’s so for certain aspects of it, but I hate doing it […]
This isn’t another of those manic, so-motivated, happy-2019-or-die posts, and it isn’t for those who are perking right along with their champagne-bubbly, happy new year. This is a little something for the rest of us, those who are struggling to remember why we’re getting out of bed every morning, those who leave for work when it’s dark and come home […]
It’s the question every writer asks themselves. I don’t know one who hasn’t, at some point in the struggle to get words on paper, just thrown down the pen or chucked the keyboard at the wall in frustration, wondering if we really have what it takes. Well, over at LitHub Karen E, Bender has written a gorgeous essay on the […]
We love our multitasking, multi-functional phones, tablets and e-readers, but it seems our ancestors have been rocking that “all in one” vibe at least since early modern times. Practical? Well, we’ll leave it to our readers to decide, but it’s certainly a bravura display of the bookbinder’s art. A tip of the hat on this one to Open Culture. https://www.tumblr.com/erikkwakkel/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special
This is an essay about a lifelong love affair with maps. I could have written it; so could my husband have, and any of several of my friends for that matter. We who are fans of maps just generally can be inordinately fond of fantasy maps, for what can possibly be better to a cartophile than a map of a place […]
Michael had started a post for you last week, but computer troubles are delaying his ability to complete it. The working title I saw was “The Cost of Everything,” and I took away from our discussion that it involves how to determine what anything might cost in your fantasy fictional setting, whether it be for literary or gaming purposes. Like […]
From the wiki: Raven Wing If you’ve read Dead Man’s Trigger, you already know how Raven got his name. If you were curious to know more about the device called the Raven Wing, including more about it’s war-time uses, please do click through to read up. It’s one of many wiki entries available to our readers, and we update them […]
It seems most writers go through periods where the words just won’t come, no matter what we do. Some writers call this dull, dark time “writer’s block,” but others writers — more than you might suspect — think writer’s block is little more than a myth, something writers invent to excuse everything from laziness to depression. Yet others see the […]
