It’s amazing the things we take for granted when trying to hold a conversation. Today, I’m walking down the hallway at work and someone says, "You look nice today." There...
Words make sentences. Sentences make paragraphs. Paragraphs make stories. Everything you write is a story, from the business letter to your colleague to the essay for your English Lit class...
This blog is inspired by a post I recent read in which a writer asked "how do I find an agent who publishes fictional novels of non-magical fantasy?" The writer...
Last year, I made lots of friends at the Nebula Awards. This year too. Getting together to just hang around in a no pressure atmosphere, talk about our pets, our favorite...
This is my second year at the SFWA Nebula Awards Weekend. I’ve noticed a lot of the same questions and behavior both years by non-writers or, as Bear puts it,...
Whether you are a technical writer or a fiction writer, proofreading other people’s work can teach you a lot. Sometimes you will see good examples of writing that you will...
Not counting my Shadowrun work, I’ve had a total of six stories accepted for publication with only three of them returned to me with editor requested revisions. In fact, they...
I cringe when struggling writers publicly post comments like "I don’t care how much I get paid, so long as I get published" or "I’m just going to build my...
Life is frustrating enough when you work the daily grind and you see people get ahead due to whom they know, not based on merit. When it comes to writing,...
I learned it in summer camp. "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m gonna go eat wo-oo-orms." Anyone know that one? It comes to mind because I got yet another...
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.
