I’m self-publishing my first novel, With Perfect Clarity, which is exciting and fun and terrifying. It’s exciting and fun because I get to call all the shots and do everything exactly how I want it to be done. No rejection letters to deal with, no editor making me change my story in ways I don’t…
One of the assignments in Dean Wesley Smith’s Character Voice and Setting workshop was to write a short story for an imaginary anthology called First Dates. After we’d read each other’s stories, Dean went through his process for determining what to buy for an anthology, which is to create a list something like this: author…
Two weeks ago today I returned home after attending Dean Wesley Smith’s Character Voice and Setting writing workshop. It was a fantastic class – we covered everything that I’d hoped to learn. On top of that, one of the short stories I wrote for a homework assignment wanted to be a novel, so I’m now…