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Category Archives: Books
Genre Trouble: urban fantasy (the city as character)
My Brain Sister and Beta is currently reading my novella The Lost Pissarro. She had the following comments: “One of the things I thought was cool: it keeps in the spirit of urban fantasy because Minneapolis is a character. If … Continue reading
Genre Trouble: Pulp and Proud
I owe a considerable debt to my writing buddy Devin Harnois, who handed me a couple of books and said, “You need to read these, because I thought you already had.”
Summer NaNo: In the Good Ole Summertime (Unconventional Beach Books)
In the good ole summertime… … It’s time to write a novel. That, and to lie around in hammocks reading huge books. My notion of a beach read is somewhat different from the usual: it’s books that require large stretches … Continue reading
Apprenticing with the Dead: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee
“The past is a foreign country,” L. P. Harley wrote at the beginning of his novel The Go-Between. “They do things differently there.” Paradoxically, we can understand the foreign ways of the past if we spend enough time with its inhabitants. … Continue reading
Apprenticing with the Dead: Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
When I was 14 years old, I got a scholarship to an elite Catholic boarding school in Florida. My best friend Arlene (the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica) did too, and we were off to an adventure together across the … Continue reading
NaNoFeed: on reading history
I have always enjoyed reading history, on the theory that somebody else’s troubles are far more entertaining than my own. Along the way, I picked up a whole lot of rather canny advice. Gibbon, for example. If I were to … Continue reading
Lessons from National Novel Writing Month: a charter for your novel
One of the really valuable lessons of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is thinking out what you love and what you hate in a novel. In Chris Baty’s classic manual for the event, No Plot? No Problem!, this is called … Continue reading
What I write, and why
What I write is the novel. Why write the novel? Because it is the most exciting thing in the world. It is a world, the next best thing to being god of my own universe. Writers dream awake, just like … Continue reading
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