Author of THE UNITY SEQUENCE. Doing the right thing for Alderaan reasons since 2012.
‘Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about.’
Solid advice. Full piece here.
Limited bloggery over the past few days – sorry about that. We’ve been away on a little trip over the long weekend here in Brazil. I have no idea which saint’s day it was which gave me the day off last Thursday, but I’m grateful – taking the extra vacation day on Friday made it a four day weekend, and they’re always good.
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The old master died peacefully yesterday. There’s a wonderful obituary from Lev Grossman at TIME here.
““If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful,” he once said. “I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting.” He sold his first story in 1941 to Super Science Stories and never looked back. He had an essay in the New Yorker last week.”
He’ll be missed.
Very interesting. I’m going to keep an eye on this.
When I saw the trailer for Snow White and The Huntsman my reaction was “Wow, that actually looks really goo- oh crap, they cast Kristen Stewart. Why. Why why why. Why would anyone do that.”
And now it looks like it turned out even worse than I thought it was going to be. Spoiler-filled review on Tor here.
“A moment for Kristen Stewart as Snow White. No, you know what, let’s not give her a moment because she spends the entire film caught between two facial expressions and couldn’t make you care about this character if the director had tied injured, mewing kittens to her ankles for the duration of her journey.”
Any better puns on the title? Jokes about Kristen Stewart’s acting skills? Share them in the comments!
Lovely fiancée Amisha powered through the first half of ASCENSION POINT today, and has loads of great feedback, including some things I’d simply never have thought of:
“If she’s a really powerful politician who works all the time, why does she care so much about her beauty regimen? I mean, look at Dilma.”
It’s marvellous having a voracious reader and very smart cookie to give the story a good kicking before it goes off to the professional editor. I really want to make this first novel the absolute best it can be.
And on that note, I’m very excited that Stephanie Mooney will be starting work on my cover next week – can’t wait to see what she puts together. Exciting times!
Ah, starting the first draft of a new book. Second only in writing satisfaction to finishing one.
I knocked out the first scene of ROGUE today, the first part of the prologue introducing the antagonists. I can already tell this is going to be really fun to write.
Meanwhile the edit of ASCENSION POINT rumbles on slowly – I love my beta readers dearly, but feedback is a tough thing to wait for. Hurry up, please! My impatience knows no bounds. I want to get the edit done, and get the book out into the world!
Patience, Dan. Patience.
Is here. What do we have to look forward to? Some highlights:
And John Carter comes out on DVD. I didn’t see the film because I heard it was terrible, but somehow it going to DVD this early makes me sad.
Anything you’re looking forward to, folks?
DAN HARRIS: 10% SCI, 90% FI 
