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ATTENTION TEENAGED ÆTHERNAUTS, SKYMINERS, AIR PIRATES AND ANACHROPOLOGISTS!
Like Steampunk? Me too! Have you ever wondered what an alternate Minnesota would look like? A steam-powered world of intrepid explorers, polished locomotives, bustles, spats, strict adherence to tea time, automatons and teleautomatic robot servants, and high altitude dirigibles? A … Continue reading
What I Write About When I Write About Magic
I didn’t mean to be a writer who writes about magic. I have, though, lived my life assuming the possibility of magic. The world, after all, is wondrous and strange. It is incongruous, grimy, chaotic and odd. And that oddness … Continue reading
On Entropy, Accretion and Exploding Novels
There was a time in my life when I was a lot tougher than I am now. And though I was strong enough to break a man’s nose (and did once, but that is another story) that time in my … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, books, deathlessness, entropy, fiction is my job, formation of stars, horsehead nebula, nebula, new novels, novels, writing, Young Adult Literature, youth
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A year buds, swells, blooms, dies.
All things considered, I really dug 2010, despite its rather inauspicious beginning at which I learned that my book, originally slated to slide into the world in the fall of 2010, was to be delayed until 2011. That was a … Continue reading
Want to save Literature? Support small presses.
I’m not kidding around. For all the bellyaching lately about the Endless Deathknells of Literature (and Life!) as we know it (yeah, Garrison, I’m talkin’ to you), not nearly enough attention is being paid to the vigorousness and vitality abounding in the … Continue reading
More Stories from the Ever-Awesome Clive
I love Clive. Millions and millions of love. Now, I know it’s very wrong of writers to pick favorites among their characters – much like parents pouring love onto particular children and ignoring the rest. And while it’s true that … Continue reading
Much Like My Inability To Walk and Chew Gum……
I can’t write while I teach. Like at all. I’ve attempted to do it before – some feeble stabs at a story over here, some anemic excuses for a poem over there. Nope. Not at all. It’s as though, by … Continue reading
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Tagged Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Russo Rocks, passion for the job, Teaching, writing
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Dorkus Interuptus
Here’s my post that I put up on The YA-5, the group blog of fabulous writers that allows me to play in their sandbox. Feel free to comment here or there: So, I’m just going to come right out and … Continue reading
Amptuated Novel Bits
So, here’s another section of the book that ended up facing the knife. Removing characters from a narrative is an unbelievably tricky operation, because it alters not only the motivation of the characters that remain, but it also raises the … Continue reading
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Tagged editing, fiction is my job, I wish I was better at this, writing
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