thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | April 4, 2011
You may think your work may have been unfairly treated by some reviewer, blogger, or some commenter on Amazon. But no, really it hasn’t. Your work has never been truly insulted unless it has been insulted like this: Gentlemen: “Dod Grile” (Mr. Bierce) is a personal friend of mine, & I like him exceedingly — but [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 2, 2011
Strangely enough, just as my ancient post on Mr. Patrick “fiction writer working at the very highest level today” Roscoe gained some renewed attention, another author decided to break the cardinal rule of writing in the age of the internet, that rule being: “Thou shalt not start a flame war over a review of thine [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 31, 2011
A year ago I blogged about Mr. Patrick Roscoe an asshat of epic proportions whose claim to fame is sending the following to a literary agent: Colleen Lindsay: Thank you for making it clear, through your response to my query, that you are unquipped (sic) to represent fiction writers who are working at the very [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 25, 2011
One of the things keeping me from blogging has been a rewrite on my unsold novel Valentine’s Night. I’m nearing the end of that revision, and the MS has gone from 75K to around 95K, and that’s with some cutting. I’ve attempted to address the issue that I think has kept it from selling, the [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 19, 2011
Over at Book Chick City I’m being featured in their series “Where Stories Are Made,” where authors get to do a mini photo-essay about the environment where they actually do their writing. So you all can get to see the (clean parts of the) office at home and at the day job. Unfortunately, she didn’t [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 29, 2010
Writing tip: If you want to really do this, you can’t complain about lacking the time. If you lack the time, it’s only because you have placed things higher on the priority list than actually writing. Things like blogging. . . That is all.
S Andrew Swann | December 20, 2010
The quiet is due to me working on Marked, the new project that (at the moment) supersedes the NaNoWriMo novel. I’m working on that one because, even though the NaNoWriMo project has more words, Marked is in a state closer to completion. This is primarily due to having written a proposal for it for Eleanor [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 7, 2010
So Charlie Stross has posted a lament about the dearth of Utopias in SF of late. If you follow my blog, you may already have a good idea of what I think about that. There are several issues I have with his post. (Probably all having to do with us being so politically opposed to [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 4, 2010
From another Steve I have linkage to Jeff VanderMeer showing some of the process of revision he goes through, sending pages of his manuscript to red pencil nirvana. It’s interesting to me, because I’m somewhat a polar opposite when it comes to revision. If I didn’t ask for critiques from third parties, I might not [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 1, 2010
Now that I’m done and I can spare a few hundred words for my blog, I’d thought I’d give a little recap on what I think this NaNoWriMo thing was good for, despite some asinine anal-retentive elitist asshat skeptics out there: First, what lessons this provides a newbie author: The first rule of writing: to [...]
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