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...
I just sent off "Silk and Steam" for submission to the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology collection, with my editor’s blessing. I’m planning to send my horror story...
I hate characters who victimize themselves. Sometimes in a good way, assuming the character was well written. But I’ve run into more than one character that serves as the voice...
Some people believe that a character who talks to herself would be perceived as crazy (never mind that actors talk to themselves all the time). I’ve been told that at...
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...
John Scalzi has an interesting blog post on "How to have a Writing Career like Mine." The first sentence in that blog is "you can’t." Then he goes on to...
The launch party at Akon 22 was wonderful. The cake was chocolate sheet cake with a white cake shaped into a red corset and very generous cleavage. It was adorable,...
I’m in a weird mood today, so I thought I’d share my list on the best ways to be a writer and fail at it. If you have anything you’d...
Think fast. What do these three things have in common? Turtle. Watermelon. Sex Worker. They are the prompts for a short story, 5000 words, to be featured in an upcoming...
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,...
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.
