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You Can’t Go Wrong with Books

Sara Lundberg - December 11, 2012

Writers are not hard to buy for. I promise you, they are probably the easiest group of people (aside from kids – why do I have twenty things I want to buy the five-year-old but can’t think of a single thing to buy my Dad?) to shop for. Why? Easy. We love stories. Anything that […]

Submit or Perish

Jack Campbell, Jr. - June 11, 2012

Writers are masochists. They have to be. Otherwise, they would never put up with the whole thing. Writing is a painful process. Don’t get me wrong. Everyone loves the first draft, some writers even enjoy re-writing, but I don’t know a single person that loves submission. Even the name sounds bad, as if you are […]

The People You Know are a Well of Knowledge

Ashley M. Hill - June 8, 2012

If my current hobbies end up informing my writing, it’s mostly on an accidental basis. For instance, I started out the last novel with the idea that I wanted to write a cyberpunk retelling of a fairy tale. That didn’t really happen, once the novel was edited to focus more on what it actually was. […]

A Strange Mash-up

Sara Lundberg - January 3, 2012

To quote the Zen Master Lucas in the 1995 movie Empire Records: “Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.” Ok, so he wasn’t really a Zen Master, but he makes a valid point. It’s hard for writers to answer the “where do your ideas come from” question because they are like any ideas. […]