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…I am thinking of honey. More to the point, of harvesting the honey. My grandfather used to keep bees; so did my great-uncle. That was a thing that the two brothers had in common – the basic activity – but the way they went about it was very different. Great-uncle had a bee-keeper’s gloves – I cannot [...] In the fall of 1991, two German tourists were hiking in the Ötztal Alps. Just inside the Italian border with Austria, they found a human body lying face down, frozen below its trunk in glacier ice. Since other corpses had recently been found in the area, the body was initially believed to have [...] My name is Bill, and I sell books. I also do book reviews. These are two attributes of which I’m fairly proud. In one way or another I’ve maintained a minor web presence and a decent convention presence for more than a decade. I’ve been only writing the reviews for a little more than a year, but [...] You know that one question people seem to always ask writers? Not the one about how much money you make. I’m talking about the OTHER question: “Where do you get your ideas?” It always amazes me that people think that writers have the inside track to story ideas. Like we have some source from which [...] I once knew a photographer who credited a lot of his favorite work to happy accidents … those creative outcomes you don’t intend, don’t try for, or that come out totally wrong but manage to be just right after all. This was in the days of film, when early digital cameras cost as much as a [...] This will be my last column for 2010. So, here, end of the year “writing advice”: When you write, write. When you don’t write, don’t write. Keep them separate and perhaps even equal. Holiday times, remembering times, old year slips away, new year beckons us … I’m closing with the lyrics of a song the late Fred Holstein sang [...] So, last month, I issued a plea for topics, and Sora Kess answered with an excellent question regarding Evil Hordes. There was a panel at World Fantasy, which I did not attend, in which apparently the consensus was that all secondary world fantasies have Evil Hordes in them. (If this is a misrepresentation, I apologize.) Now, [...] A while ago (maybe a long while, depending on when I put this one up), NPR’s What’s the Word broadcast a piece called Literature on Foot. Basically, it was about a few poets and their habit of walking as part of their creative process. “Perhaps truth depends on a walk around the lake.” That kind of thing. One [...] |
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