In terms of consistently giving me what I need: Stephen King Robert Heinlein Orson Scott Card Neil Gaiman Guy Gavriel Kay Emma Bull There are lots of others, but these I can pretty much reach for most of the time, and be all right. … [Read more...]

I don't understand the question. I'm keeping a blog for myself, to keep track of the things I find useful. You might easily walk into a boxer's training facility - it doesn't mean the training part is the fight. … [Read more...]

Whatever novel I'm currently writing. In other words, the book I'm *not* reading to avoid writing. Other than that, it's Steven King's book. … [Read more...]

I've been busy writing and will have ignored it until I'm not (hopefully quite some time). If I have found it vaguely polemical or uninteresting, it may be longer still. I don't publish most comments. … [Read more...]

Both or anything, as long as it's everything. I feel successful having created a plot outline, but only if I actually write it. I'm currently shoot for 3hrs per session, 5 sessions per week. … [Read more...]

Right now, Ywriter by Spacejock is helping me: do more viable plot development with specificity of characters and places with continuity of each scene with each other scene break the story into manageable chunks, so I'll actually write it (as opposed to seeing it as a big, unconquerable ocean) identify characters that need creation identify additional continuity plot points "read" the … [Read more...]

Some things I've written were published in one form or another under various pen names, including this one, and I've self-published. However, nothing I've published has yet been the fullness of what I have set out to do. So, in that sense, no. … [Read more...]