David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

On the Fifth Day

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

Deadlines and Negotiation

Kim Harrison was supposed to be here today, and she may make it to tomorrow, but deadlines (not hers, but her publisher’s) have pushed it back. Hence my subject matter today—deadlines—and the impact they play on writer’s *real* life, writing life, and daily, weekly, monthly schedule.

Deadlines are part of a writer’s life. We sign for [...]

Happy Holidays! And the Start of MW Book Giveaway Week!

Welcome to the first installment of MW’s Book Giveaway Week….

So, I have a new project underway.  No, not the historical fantasy I mentioned several weeks ago, but a new one that fell in my lap at the beginning of December, and that I’ve yet to announce publicly on this site.  I am writing the novelization [...]

The State of The…

Yes, I forgot it was Wednesday. Sorry I am so late posting. And I have no excuse really. Okay – I pulled a third shift at the lab and my brain is screwy, but still. It *is* my day to post…. Continuing on the Writer’s Life theme, here are a few of the ups and [...]

Deadlines!

“Butt in Chair.”

Over the past couple of years BIC has become something of a mantra here at Magical Words, and it remains some of the best advice we as a group have given.  If you want to be a writer, you have to write.  Simple as that.  Or not.  In fact, there is more to [...]

Just do it.

A friend of mine posted on his LiveJournal today that he doesn’t quite know how to encourage himself to sit down and start writing. It’s easy to want to write, to imagine those fabulous worlds and envision how the story will play out. Imagination is necessary for writing, but the physical part, the [...]

Nothin’ but friends and deadlines

So, today is my day to post. And I got nothing’.

 

Not a dang thing.

 

With that (nothin’) in mind, I’d like to chat about deadlines and the social lives of writers. Because both are on [...]