I turned down a gig recently. The prospective client had inquired if I could edit a screenplay, and I said yes. But what he sent me was a season’s worth of log lines for a SF/F TV series. I’m in no way knowledgeable about SF/F. Not in novels or screenplays or teleplays or any other...
This week I want to address my fellow writers, and I want to ask them a question: Do you know what book you want to write next?
When I was a kid, “made-up” stories had two meanings: 1. Fiction. Stories that weren’t true; they were made up. 2. Stories devised by the storyteller. They didn’t come from a book; they weren’t familiar tales retold, or old classics that the storyteller knew by heart and was repeating. He or she had made them...
Halloween has come and gone. Now we can look forward to Thanksgiving (or, as many of us call it, “turkeyday”), a day on which we give thanks for many things, including turkey, but no turkey in its right mind has anything to be thankful for unless it escaped the axe.