Failing again. Failing better.
Recently, I posted about Rachel Aaron’s method for increasing her daily word count from 2,000 to 10,000. I also posted about how practice trumps talent. This had me thinking of Jonathan Coulton’s (@jonathancoulton) Thing a Week Project. For those of you unfamiliar with Coulton, he was a programmer who was really a musician. Coulton decided…
About a month and a half ago, I asked people to submit story prompts. Reader “insanerobot” suggested “a misplaced robot.” I haven’t forgotten about this. I’ve just been lazy about getting the story up on the site. I expect to have it up either later this week or early next week. I’ll post it on…
This is an idea that has been bouncing around in my head for a while, and it was recently brought up on Twitter by Laura Fitzgerald (@Laura_FitzG), Digital Marketing Coordinator at Tor, in a #torchat. Laura asked, “Research: do you love it or would you rather be writing over world-building?” I don’t think you need…