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I am toying with the notion that my most important, and hardest, job as a writer (and perhaps in life as a whole) is getting out of my own way. Discuss, please. Here in the Comments, or on Facebook or Twitter. One way I try to accomplish getting out of my own way – which is working, [...] OK, so actually I am cultivating in myself unguarded optimism: straight-ahead, all-out, no-pants, face-in-the-wind optimism. This is the image that called to mind, yes? If not, feel free to thank me. Gratuities gratefully accepted. Because I find that, if I believe without reservation that I can make the future a better place for myself and those [...] … And it’s almost two and a half months yet to Halloween! So I finally nerved myself to go over the contracts for The Dinosaur Lords. (I admit I was giving in to fear some, here – a habit I am working diligently to break, and making fine progress overall. Still, obviously I am still no [...] Contracts for my epic fantasy novel THE DINOSAUR LORDS have arrived from Tor. Now I have the read them! … To success in writing. Also, all of life. It’s here in the refrain. Listen: Seriously. That’s it. Persevere. Everything else is secondary. So yesterday I got an email firing me off the Seekrit Projekt. The editor – who has been immensely supportive, helpful, and enthusiastic throughout our professional association, and who professed herself delighted by everything I delivered – said her CEO didn’t care for the “voice, tone, and style of writing.” (Or as one waggish friend [...] Listen up, my beloved friends and readers! I have just accepted an offer from Tor Books to buy a little thing I like to call The Ballad of Karyl’s Last Quest: A Romance in Three Volumes. And you know what that means. You’re more used to seeing me refer to it by the title of Volume the [...] Nothin’ left in the tank today, that is. This need probably not surprise us, given my Big Writing Binge of recent history. Notwithstanding that I took all of yesterday off, doing even more nothing than I intended. I’ve spent much of the last 14-15 months learning how to push my limits without seriously overstepping them. Seem to [...] A year ago I came back from a very dark place, speaking figuratively. And began a new life. In what amounted to a new house. On February 27th, 2010, I went to the emergency room, and from there into UNM Hospital. Along with life-threatening physical conditions (at least three, in fact) I was diagnosed as suffering from [...] |
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