A Post About Barry Zito and Writing
Today’s post at the Magical Words blogsite is about writing, and the creative lessons to be learned from the success of an aging baseball pitcher. The post is called “Writing to Our Strengths, or What...
View ArticleA Post About Balance in the Writing Life
Today I have a post up at the SFNovelists blogsite, a site I maintain in cooperation with approximately 100 other published authors of fantasy and science fiction. The post (written under David B....
View ArticleA Post About Looking Backward in Order to Move Forward
Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty...
View ArticleA New Post About Character Development, at Magical Words
Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty...
View ArticleA Post About Narrative and Life, At Magical Words
Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty...
View ArticleA Post About a Writer’s Resolutions
Today’s post can be found at the SFNovelists blog, a site I help to maintain with over one hundred other published authors in speculative fiction. The post is called “Writing Resolutions for the...
View ArticleA Post About Writing and Photography
I’m at SFNovelists today, with a blog post about the similarities among various art forms. Specifically, I’m discussing a few lessons I’ve learned doing photography that translate to my writing life....
View ArticleA New Year’s Post at Magical Words
I have a post up today at Magical Words — another in what I am calling the Unofficial Winter 2014-15 Spell Blind Blog Tour. The post is called “Taking Stock and Taking Risks,” and it is about the...
View ArticleA Post About the Writing Life
Today’s post can be found at the Magical Words blog site. It’s a post I struggled with (which is why it’s so late in going up), but feel very strongly about. It’s called The Writing Life and What it...
View ArticleThe Blog Tour Ends With a Post on Ideas and Creativity
Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that the act of creation is, among other things, an act of faith. We start our projects believing that when our work is done, the finished product will be...
View ArticleQuick-Tip Tuesday: Being Scooped . . . Or Not
We as authors have enough to worry about in this business as it is — the market is tough, writing good novels and short fiction is no easy task, finding time amid work and family to do all we want to...
View ArticleQuick-Tip Tuesday: Writing Every Day, or Not, or Yeah
There is a sort of alchemy that takes place when we manage to convert our own emotions into the different-but-related emotions of our characters. Spinning gold from that straw carried me through my...
View ArticleWriting-Tip Wednesday: Befriend Your Characters…And Be-Character Your Friends
This will be a relatively brief Writing-Tip Wednesday post. It’s a lazy, hot, stormy day and I’m feeling, well, lazy and hot… So far this year, I have used my Wednesday posts to offer advice about any...
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Short Fiction Anthologies — When Does an Idea Become a...
What is the difference between an idea and a story? It sounds like a basic question, but we have just begun the Zombies Need Brains Kickstarter for the coming year’s anthologies, and once again I am...
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Holidays As Part of World Building
I have written about the holidays a good deal in the past few weeks, but I have yet to address holidays as a topic in a Writing-Tip Wednesday post. Now, you’re first response to this might be, “Well,...
View ArticleMonday Musings: The Hardest, Most Wondrous, Most Creative Thing I Do
Interesting title for a post, right? Makes you wonder what this week’s essay might be about. Spoiler Alert: The post has nothing at all to do with writing… Parenting is hard. It’s hard when our...
View ArticleWriting-Tip Wednesday: Why Do We Create?
I just reread my first post of the year, when I first discussed my weekly blogging plans, and my goals for the months to come. I closed the post with “Happy 2020. May it be your best year yet.” How did...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: Creativity and the Market
As a professional writer — as a professional in the arts — I take on several career roles. I am an artist, of course. I create. I am an editor, and not just in the traditional sense of editing the work...
View ArticleCreative Friday: “Willin'” by Little Feat
This week, for Creative Friday, I offer a song. Many, many years ago, my oldest brother turned me on to Little Feat, and they quickly became my favorite band. While in college, playing with my dear...
View ArticleMonday Musings: My Declaration of Creative Independence
So many professional issues on my mind today — I’m finding it hard to organize my thoughts into something coherent. These remain hard times for creators. Writers, musicians and composers, visual...
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