Long time readers have probably noticed the dearth of blog posts this year. And that’s because it’s been a very difficult year. Between surgeries, health issues, and the stage of life I’m in there hasn’t been much room for slowing down or writing. Or even thinking. So I gave myself…
This was too fun to pass up. I’ve been traveling a lot this week, driving all up and down the west coast, and this makes me giggle every time I see it. Big trucks around Korea often have eyes on the back. Sometimes they’re angry eyes, sometimes they’re silly cartoon…
Into every life a little rain must fall, and, friends, it’s monsoon season! In an ever-changing publishing world the newest challenge is AI. You’d think I’d be thrilled. I *want* to be thrilled. I grew up on Asimov and Star Trek. I love The Murderbot Diaries and stories about Stabby…
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There are a couple of hard and fast rules for writing romance genre that you need to keep in mind if you want to write category Romance. Anything market as Romance must have a Happily Ever After/Happy For Now ending. Anything less than that, and you will eaten alive by…
Welcome to the beautiful, danger fraught world of Commitment. The Basics Commitment is a place few authors dare to tread. Committed couples? Where’s the romance in that? (Confession: I totally think you can write a great romance with married characters and this is why EVEN VILLAINS FALL IN LOVE…
Yesterday we talked about the science behind Lust. The mad, crazy, passionate time when you are truly obsessed with another sentient being, or at least obsessed with getting in their pants and scoring a DNA exchange. After a short period of time the original chemical lust wears off. Reality sets…
Love is a many-facted thing. We pine for it. We write about it. We dream of it. We mourn the loss and yet somehow always seem to wind up with our hearts broken again… Love is rough. And as much as people claim to know about love we often forget…
Over the past few weeks I’ve blogged about the basics of an ecosystem, the four simple needs of an ecosystem, and apex predators. Today, Brooke Johnson is going to kick off a series of guest posts about civilization building. She’s going to bridge the gap from basic ecosystem to flourishing…
Continuing last week’s post on sustainable living, definitions and why they pertain to writing. Biomass Majority Why you need these: This is my own term for all the creatures that fall in the center of the food web in an ecosystem. They aren’t at the bottom, but they aren’t at the…