I think the loveliest time of the year is the pub date, I do. Don't you? Course you do! Wait. What? (A gold star to whomever gets the reference in my blog post title.) I'm taking part in Story-a-Day May. Are you? I'll post the stories over at The Fairy Tale Asylum. At the end …
Continue reading May is here. May is here. Life is stories, and life is fears…
So, an agent has asked for a synopsis that reads like a book jacket. I'm not to give too much away, but to sell the story. I feel the same way about a synopsis as I did about an outline in school. But anyway. Here is my dumb idea of the day. Let me rephrase …
Fans are a mixed blessing. I've been reading about True Fans and I've been reading commentary by the fans of Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Torchwood. And it seems there's a lesson in there about Fan Rage. Fan Rage may be more prevalent in sci-fi and fantasy genres sicne they're the genres in which fans …
To be a successful writer takes many things. The first thing may be a definition of success. For some people, that's lots of sales. I've had my art in two art festivals. Hundreds of people walked through my booth. Some of those people stopped to look. A few of those people talked to me. And …
This story may best be forgotten. I have no perspective. How do you get perspective? How do you judge your own work? I can't get a handle on my own neurotic, self-obsessed spinning. But what makes a story a success? When you read a story, how do you know this one works but this one …
That's what good writing feels like--that delicious crush calling and wanting to see you, that rush to tell your friends about what your object of desire said or did, that lovely oh-he-kissed-me moment. Silly to admit to, I suppose, but when I believe (rightly or wrongly--just like rightly or wrongly choosing the guy) that my …
Marta Bacon 