Archive for August, 2011
It’s time again to give the mic to another wonderful writer — this time, Anne Lyle, writer of historical fantasy and Angry Robot author — and submit her brain for processing at the Terribleminds Institute For Penmonkey Dissection. You’re going to want to keep a keen eye on Anne.
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Fuck turtles. It’s novels, all the way down. And so I thought, for those of you looking to write novels, that this was a good place to pause and have a look around. Let us gander at the wondrous miracle that is the birth and life of the common novel. Let us gaze into the swirling vortex that is the novel’s life cycle.
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I’m going to give you the real honest-to-Jeebus writing advice, slid to you across the table in a non-descript brown envelope. Like, if you take all the other bullshit I say on this site, duct-tape it to a goat and then push that goat off a cliff, you could still get by on the things I’m about to tell you.
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From today (Monday) to one week from today (next Monday, Aug 22nd), if you buy a copy of CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY, I will comp you a PDF copy of 250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING. Easy-peasy boop-und-squeezy. Also: click the post for an update as to what the hell I’m up to.
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This week’s flash fiction challenge asks you to combine CRIME and GUNS into one awesome scatter blast of flash fiction, the kind that pulls your guts out your asshole. And you get a chance to win CRIMES OF SOUTHERN INDIANA by the inimitable Frank Bill.
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