thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | November 30, 2010
Well I did it (go me!), 50K words in a month. This is a task I’ve manged before, but never as a conscious act. Before, the few times I’ve been this productive, I’ve had a muse with a whip chasing me. This time I literally started completely cold. All I had was an idea that [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 18, 2010
More NaMoWriMo excerpts: “He killed her here,” she whispered. “Who? What?” “She didn’t like what he was doing, this place, what lived here. She begged him to move, to take the family away from this place. They argued, yelled, screamed. The floor was just vinyl stick on tile, old and brittle.” Her face had gone [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 17, 2010
Plagiarism and Privilege at Making Light. Scalzi on MFA Programs and what is left untaught. (With followup.) Charlie Stross is dissatisfied with Steampunk. (Yes, I’m late to this particular party.) First thing we do, let’s kill all the writers.
S Andrew Swann | November 15, 2010
More NaNoWriMo stuff. In lieu of a real blog post, an except of what I just wrote about five minutes ago: The girl at the top of the stairs was older than Kelly, four or five. Her skin was pale to the point that it looked white even in shadow. Her hair was long and [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 12, 2010
NaNoWriMo update (If the blog seems slow,well something had to give.) I’m pounding away at my YA ghost story, and as the blog title suggests, it’s taken a bit of a Lovecraftian turn. It probably won’t be an explicit Mythos story, but there’s clearly some eldritch horrors hanging about.
S Andrew Swann | November 4, 2010
I’m more or less on track with my NaNoWriMo project, and I have registered myself and my project on the NaNoWriMo site. It’s probably a little more accurate than the counter I have here, since I get to see pretty graphs and such. Also, I is motivated since winning will get me a discount on [...]
S Andrew Swann | November 2, 2010
I’ve taken the plunge. Being without an outstanding contract for the first time in 17 years means this is the first November since the inception of NaNoWriMo that I have the time to try and participate. So, now that I have the Marked proposal over on my agent’s desk, I’ve started a completely new secret [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 25, 2010
So I took the 20K word fragment I’m trying to resurrect into a book proposal and ran it through the hamsters. The consensus was that what I had worked, which is a good thing since I wrote it over 10 years ago. However, everyone had the same problem, which is a uniquely SFnal one. I [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 21, 2010
I have been mind-melded again over at SF Signal, and the theme this time is memorable anti-heroes in S/SF: Here are three of the most memorable anti-heroes in written SF/F, at least the three that come most readily to my mind when the question comes up. First is Slippery Jim DiGriz of the Stainless Steel [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 11, 2010
In the annals of book promotion, this has got to be up there with the all time bad ideas. A paperback book was hurled towards President Obama seconds after he completed a Democratic rally in Philadelphia on Sunday, but aides say the incident in no way affected the event. [...] The US Secret Service found [...]
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