All Your Literature Are Belong to Us: Interpretation/Reception and Ownership
I’ve become interested in the last few months with the idea of intellectual ownership of written materials. In part this is because of the ways some fiction authors (and others) have responded to criticism and interpretation in the last few years elsewhere and on this blog. Setting aside instances where someone intentionally spams a book’s page […]
Adventures in Real-Time Story Collaboration: Day Two (Plot Problems)
Adam and I have made enormous progress on our collaborative story. How much? Day one ended at about 850 words, which is certainly nothing to scoff at; day two, however, ended at about 4,000 words, which seems to me to be an impressive amount of writing for anyone. To be fair, I wrote close to […]
Adventures in Real-Time Story Collaboration: Day One (Google Docs)
The Internet is an amazing thing. I’m sure of it now. Yes, it’s full of stupid people making stupid comments on YouTube that make dyslexic people wonder if everyone else is dyslexic too, but after what happened last night, I have to say that the Internet is the single greatest human invention (next to bread […]
The Hard Working Writer Should Be a Hard Writing Writer
The last few years have been really interesting for writers and readers alike. Publishers, writers, self-publishers, and others have been pushing for the view of the writer as one who must not only write, but do everything else too. While I understand why this vision is necessary (published authors have to sell books and all […]
John Scalzi Says “STFU” to People Who Say “I Don’t Have Time to Write”
And you know what, Scalzi hits the nail on the head with this one: This is why at this point in time I have really very little patience for people who say they want to write but then come up with all sorts of excuses as to why they don’t have the time. You know […]
Suspending Disbelief While Writing Fantasy (Harder Than It Sounds)
I may have talked about this before (in passing), but I wanted to bring the subject up again, and in a little more depth. And then I’m going to ask a question. I’ve been struggling as of late with writing fantasy. While I love the genre, I can’t seem to get past the third or […]