Editors and Their Faults?
How much responsibility does an editor have when it comes to the condition of the work they are choosing to publish?Serious question. What do you all out there think? For some context: I am currently reading a novel that has a lot of mistakes that not only should never have been written, but should have […]
Literary Critics Are Morons
What exactly is it about the literary academia that makes literature, in its most basic form, even more inaccessible by the general populace? I’ll tell you. Critics are morons. Now, what I mean by this is not that they are just stupid in how they choose good books, but rather that they have no understanding […]
SFWA: My Thoughts
Alright, so it’s probably somewhat old news, but so be it. I feel like putting my thoughts out there. I’m sure some of you have already heard about SFWA’s little blunder in regards to www.scribd.com. For those that haven’t, here is a very brief run down of what happened: Some members of SFWA reported finding […]
New Design and Writing
Some of you who visit here may have noticed that the look of my blog has changed. This is only the start of the changes for it. I’ve decided to stick with Blogger for now. I imagine that while WordPress might have some amazing features, such features will end up being a part of Blogger […]
Point of View Gone Haywire
It has been coming to my attention more and more lately that it is becoming acceptable in the literary world to completely ignore all the little rules that have been laid down in regards to POV. Why has this become a good thing to do? I don’t get it. One of the biggest rules of […]
The Proverbial Million Words
I heard Tobias Buckell say in an interview at Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing that most writers need to write a good one million words of crap before coming up with anything publishable. Obviously this isn’t always the case, but it got me thinking of how many words I have written. My total?276,377 words! Is […]