Category: Writing Reflections
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Thoughts on the “Strong Woman Character”™
Lately I’ve been thinking about this strange bird, the “Strong Woman Character”™. As November approaches, various conversations regarding characters, and sometimes in particular, the Strong Woman Character (hereafter known as the SWC), arise in the fora devoted to NaNoWriMo. Who writes SWCs? What comprises an SWC? What are the advantages of including one? Do you have to…
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Quick note…
It’s been a little crazy over here at the Infamous Scribbler cave. I’ve been doing way less scribbling, and way more hand-holding, editing, teaching, and other things than I had hoped. I’m about to hit my third week of teaching class, and I have to tell you, my kids are swamped and so am I.…
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Dragon*Con Rundown
I’ve been back from Dragon*Con for about a day and a half, and still have a stack of things that need to be done, some of which really should not be waiting for me to write a rambling blog post, but what the heck. I’m on vacation. So, how was Con? Con was amazing, awesome,…
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Week full of win…
…although it certainly didn’t seem like it was going to start out like so. I received my first three-star rating on Goodreads for Soft Target. I had an idea that it might be coming, as not everyone is going to like what I’m putting out there, and now that people who aren’t my friends, family,…
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Radio Silence (And a Cold Run excerpt…)
So, I was very tempted to entitle this blog post “Silent But Deadly,” which is kind of an indicator about the level of humor I’m able to drum up nowadays. Things are going along pretty well, if a bit on the busy side. I thought once my grades were submitted for my Legal Aspects of…
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Tumblereads…
The past few weeks have been a little quiet, here on the pages of the ol’ Infamous Scribbler. Usually such a statement would be followed by the announcement of earth-shattering news, but I’ve got nothing like that. Instead, it’s been a quiet grind of work, getting ready to head back to the States for a…
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Slowly coming along…
It’s been a little quiet here in the Infamous Scribbler Fortress of … well, I was going to say “Solitude” – but I have a roommate, “Silence” – but I’m marathon-watching my way through the sixth season of Supernatural, “Books” – but that just doesn’t sound very poetical. Let’s just call it the Fortress of…
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Submitting, writing, editing, reading, writing, teaching …
…not necessarily in that order. First things, while you’re here, be sure to check out the first Infamous Scribbler guest post ever, namely Jim Reader’s Putting a Little Realism in Your Fantasy. Also, my newest interview is up, this one a Conversation with Dominique Goodall. Check out what she has to say about writing fantasy,…
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Guest Post: Putting a Little Realism in Your Fantasy … by, Jim Reader
Welcome to the first guest post here at Infamous Scribbler, this from author and friend Jim Reader, who holds his own over at the Central Texas Home for the Terminally Twitchy. It is thanks to a bet-slash-dare from Jim that I wrote the first short story I ever had accepted for publication, and his discerning…
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Update-y post is update-y…
Business first. I have sent an e-mail to the six non-Entangled Publishing commenters who were kind enough to leave feedback on my “Conversation with Sue Winegardner” post. It was originally supposed to be five selected at random, but when I told her I had six people interested in the “query+first five” critique offer, she generously…
Rachel A. Brune 