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Space for Rent: Between Glamorization and Hard Truths

By ralfast August 10, 2012 3 Comments

Tweet of the Day: The Author’s Voice – Diane Dooley ——- Art is visceral. For good or for ill. Many times, it is both, with no dividing line in between. No, there is none, what so ever. I would like to have one, even a squiggly, snaking line on the beach that any five year […]

Weekend Roundup: December 11-17

By ralfast December 17, 2011 2 Comments

Tweet of the Day: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned ——– Well, what do you know, a full week of blogging! It has been awhile, hasn’t it. I guess it must be the holidays or something. Lets take a peek, shall we? Sun: Kicking off the week with some philosophical musings- Off Limits […]

Weekend Update: September 18-24 with 50% more fanfic!

By ralfast September 24, 2011 2 Comments

Tweet of the Day: The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their ‘Liberated Sexuality’ ——– This was the week of ending and near endings. Wizards’ World War Season 1 drew to a close. It felt a bit rushed, I know, and I’ll have to revised in the near future, but my gut told me that […]

On Writing: Fan Fiction

By ralfast July 19, 2011 4 Comments

Tweet of the Day: Exercise Your “What-if” Muscle ——– According to Wikipedia, fan fiction is: Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters (or simply fictional characters) or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original […]

Sunday Tweet: Horror Novel Soundtrack

By ralfast July 10, 2011 2 Comments

Tweet of the Day: Horror Novel Soundtrack ——- Music. Long time readers of this blog know that I find endless inspiration in music, although I can’t sing worth a damn. And if you follow the link above you will find that I am not the only one. Tasha loves all things 19th century and her […]

So What Now?

By ralfast March 19, 2011 2 Comments

Tweet of the Day: How to Sue Dialogue to Avoid Lengthy Info Dumps —— So far I kept a steadier posting schedule than any time in the past. That is the good news. The bad news? I need more things to post! I have a few ideas for regular features: More Blog Immigrants/Re-Post: culling the […]

Spreadsheet Madness

By ralfast October 28, 2010 7 Comments

A dog sitting on a bar stool is kind of crazy. Me using spreadsheets to organize my characters in RoE, now that is insane. I like to blame Amy for this little jaunt to the insane asylum.  I can barely use Excel and yet here I am, filling out cells, well, like crazy! When one […]

Clearing the Deck-Week 2: Killing My Darlings

By ralfast August 21, 2010 4 Comments

The 360 is back on. 😦 Tried to keep the streak but half way through the week I failed. Couldn’t  do it any more. Why? I sent an excerpt (first 450 words) of my first WIP to a contest, to see if I could snag an agent. Missed the first dateline, almost missed the second. […]

Query Week: Alternatives to Queriying

By ralfast June 9, 2010 Leave a comment

NOTE: This post assumes that you, as the writer, want to snag an agent. By passing the agents or self-publishing will be covered on a later date. —– Is there is such a thing? Yes, but it takes steel nerves and a bit of luck to successfully bypass the querying process in order to land […]

Query Week: The Tao of Qs and As

By ralfast June 8, 2010 4 Comments

That’s Queries and Agents to you. But before we go into today’s topic, check out Donna’s travails in query making. And now back to our post. The whole process of getting published, at least for a first time fiction author is, well, a carriage-before-horse deal. Let me explain. The common route to publishing runs thus: […]