Occasionally I’ll write a drabble, a short story of exactly one hundred words. One year the only stories I submitted to Pocket’s Strange New Worlds contest were drabbles. Why not? I thought. What editor wouldn’t want to buy a story for ten dollars instead of a few hundred? Well, it didn’t work out that way.Continue reading “On "Making Minds Free"”
Daily Archives: April 30, 2007
On Great Characters
Sometimes you find a character who is an absolute joy to write. Arrogant, prone to speeches and bombast, quick-witted, and an all-around asshole. I love writing this character! I am so going to miss him when I’m done with this. :/ (ETA: 11:30) I’d gotten stuck in a particular scene. I knew how it began.Continue reading “On Great Characters”