Welcome back to Writing Prompt Wednesdays! Sometimes the best way to learn things about your characters is to write about them in different situations and see how they react. We...
WHOO! My very first special call is officially open, and I am excited. For those who may have missed it, I am looking for a few good novels and novellas...
It’s finished! Here is my Act of Whimsy for Jay Lake’s Sequence a Science Fiction Author fundraiser. As promised, I have dressed up as Mega from Transformers Masterforce. Unfortunately, I...
Author Jay Lake is having a nasty time getting over cancer. All treatments have come up bust and he’s running out of options. A fundraiser has been started on his...
Have you ever been working on a story and ended up someplace you didn’t want to go? I’ve heard lots of “didn’t expect that” stories from other authors, and even...
Here’s this week’s writing prompt. Da Prompt: Congratulations! Your boss (current or past) is really an alien. Write 500 to 5000 words describing how you found out his/her true identity...
Authors talk so much about writing that I feel a need to refocus the conversation. So here it is. Are you a good reader? Here’s a good test. What was...
My Viable Paradise buddy Catherine Schaff-Stump has a wonderful group of articles about the female members of the Avengers (Black Widow, Wasp, Moondragon, Hell-cat, Ms. Marvel, Scarlet Witch). I post...
There is a lot of advice out there for writers who can’t seem to finish their stories. You can buy books by the dozen on “How to Write a Novel...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
