Entries Regarding: Writing

My Rig

Jan 11th, 2011

My Rig

I hate when people say, "People always ask me...." No, they don't! Except this time, they really do: At least one person a day asks about my weird iPad setup, although it's not really that weird. Nonetheless, I explain it here. With graphical aids!

Screw-job of the Magi

Dec 23rd, 2010

Screw-job of the Magi

A Christmas story from long before the book. Never before seen!

Feb 21st, 2010

Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction

TweetShareThis has been passed around a bit already, but I’m going to post it here in case you haven’t seen it yet: Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction These are pretty hard to argue with.  The article also features several other writers’ lists — most of which aren’t as good as Leonard’s, but there’s […]

Nov 13th, 2009

Submission

TweetShare I had a lot of questions last week in workshop about the submissions process.  It’s tough to talk about submissions in the last five minutes of a class, so I put together a little primer and emailed it to everyone. Now I’m reprinting it here.  I’m not the world’s authority on literary submissions; I’m […]