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Justine Larbalestier gives her advice on rewriting…not just line-by-line grammar and spelling check, but how to teach yourself to address the big issues of your writing: pacing, character development, chapter arrangement and so on. The big parts of literary surgery that can determine whether your story lives or dies. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=890…

How you can wake up to a sixty degree, sun-shiny day, and have the weather report promising 2-4 inches of snow by nightfall. I’m not arguing, since we be lovin’ the snow, but right now this day has some serious catching up to do if it’s going to live up…

For the first WNW of the year, we’ve got some fun articles floating around. First, an amateur scientist claimed on his blog that he had been experimenting with a man-made radioactive element and had successfully developed a component used in nuclear weapons. When officials came to take away his gear,…

Since we saw a humorous piece from Patrick Rothfuss yesterday, here’s another chance to delve into his mind with this author interview conducted by the Concurring Opinions website. It’s not like most author interviews you see out there. It doesn’t focus on the inspiration for his fantasy world, or publishing…

I haven’t had a chance to actually buy and read The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss, despite all the rave reviews it’s received across the Fantasy-reading realm (though I do plan to rectify this soon enough). I have been impressed by the snatches I’ve scanned in browsing the…

This has become eerie. If you remember from a pre-vacation post (did that confuse anyone else?), I listed an article about a Russian boy who had been found living among wolves, feral in all his mannerisms, and who escaped from the center in which he was being tended…presumably to return…

Yow. Didn’t realize it’s been a week-long break for me. That’s a first for this blog. I’ll soon be getting back on track with some story ideas, writing inspirations and other such things, but since my last post involved a particular addiction, let me show you a few ways it…

Anyone else experience this? Maybe it’s not mountains for you. Maybe it’s ocean withdrawal. Or clean air withdrawal. Who knew that a particular geography and weather pattern could have so much of a hold on one’s mind? For me, NYC is just a big city. Weather there is just puddles…

It’s officially 2008, and we’re off again, this time to lose ourselves in the mountains of Colorado. A little snow action, hopefully. Did you make any resolutions? Anyone? Seems like that tradition falls a little more out of favor every year, though there are always a few who make their…

Tobias Buckell (Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin) has created a video trailer for his third book, Sly Mongoose, and asked fans to suggest various musical scores to go with it. Below is the result, which I’m still excited to see, even though we’ll have to wait until August for the actual…