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Tag Archives: bud sparhawk
What I Wrote in 2016 and The List of Award Eligibility Posts I’ve Found
Oh, it’s that time! The season of looking back at the year and seeing what you did or didn’t get done. And the season for starting to nominate for awards. I’ve been reading and recommending for a while now, but it’s always fun to read all the wrap-up posts and find anything that I missed. I do have a monster post full of some of this year’s reading, but I’m still working on that. (When I have it, there will be a link here.)
Writers wondering whether or not they should put up an awards eligibility post, the answer is yes, yes you should. Do us all the favor of collecting your stuff and making it easy to find. If you’ve got a lot, point out some favorites.
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Posted in publications
Tagged a. merc rustad, a.c. wise, aaron canton, award eligibility posts, bud sparhawk, c.c.s. ryan, david mack, erica satifka, fran wilde, kate heartfield, lia swope mitchell, lora gray, matt dovey, nattering social justice cook, nin harris, publications, sabrina vourvoulias, SFWA, valerie valdes, writing advice
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Retreat, Day T-7
It feels like I have been here a shorter time than I have, but it’s been great and I have gotten so much work done. I’m filling in gaps on Hearts of Tabat right now and happy with its progress. I wrote a bunch of stories and one poem. I walked on the beach and among the redwoods, and I got to spend time petting a bunny, and watching deer. I saw a grey fox and a barn owl swooping along late at night and covey after covey of quail, including a mama with six bitty little perfect quail running as fast as they could to keep up with her. Tonight I’ll lie out under the stars and watch the Perseid meteor shower from probably the best vantage point I’ll have in my life.
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Posted in daily life
Tagged bud sparhawk, caren gussoff, charity auction, david gerrold, george r.r. martin, haunted, raappacini's crow, sasquan, SFWA, sfwa cookbook, vonda mcintyre, worldcon
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On Writing: Collaboration And Its Perils
Collaborations can be a lot of fun. My first collaboration came about when Jeff VanderMeer asked if I’d be interested in working together on one and tossed me a 1500 word lump that would end up becoming “The Surgeon’s Tale.” That story remains among one of my favorite pieces of writing, in part because reading back through it evokes the pleasure of batting it back and forth, adding thousand or so word chunks each time, until it ended up in the land of the novelette. I think we managed to make the final result pretty seamless – I have trouble remembering who wrote some bits, although others stand out clearly in my head as Jeff’s or mine, because I remember first reading them or spinning them out.
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Posted in Writing
Tagged ben burgis, bud sparhawk, collaboration, gio clairval, jeff vandermeer, writing F&SF
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What I’m Working On: July 30, 2013
What I am currently working on: Beasts of Tabat, the first in the fantasy trilogy I have been working on for a while now is with my agent, in preparation for what I hope is the final rewrite. So I’m … Continue reading
