Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, Lately, I've been enthralled by my current WIP. It is still going well. I continue to be super pleased with my progress. For the...

Lately, I've been devouring YA. I’ve read some exceptional YA over the past month or so. This is great since my current WIP is a YA...

Howdy, I finished reading On Writing by Stephen King a couple of weeks ago. As I mentioned before, there is a lot to digest in this...

Howdy, It’s been a while since I’ve written a post about what I’ve been reading. Lately, I’ve been plowing through YA fantasy novels....

Howdy, This is the first of a little bit more in-depth writeup of my time at the Willamette Writers Conference. I’ll start off with...

Howdy, This is the first of what will likely be several posts about the Willamette Writers Conference. This year’s conference (2019) is...

Howdy, I’ve had one hell of a great writing weekend. The Willamette Writers Conference over the weekend was perhaps the best one I’ve...

Howdy, Well, I’m going to be a busy bee this weekend. Willamette Writers Conference. This won’t be my first rodeo, but I haven’t been to...

Howdy, It wasn’t that long ago I said I had officially started my new WIP. Well, there’s some good news bad news on that. I had started...

Howdy, Lately, I’ve made some excellent progress on improving my novel’s synopsis. No secret. Just revise, revise, and revise some more....

Howdy, I had an excellent start to July in my writerly world. My latest sci-fi short story The Wall was published last week over at...

Howdy, Damn. That is just damn good advice from Matt Bird, screenwriter and author of The Secrets of Story. Setting aside your draft, I...

I've had a great start to June. Just learned I’ve had a story accepted over at Fiction on the Web. I’m pretty pumped about this story,...

Well, since my last post on this topic, I’ve breezed through a handful of interesting books. I’ll start with the longest tome of them...

Howdy, I recently finished reading Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King. You might recall, that I referenced...

Howdy, Today is a pretty damn good writing day. I finally completed the Arduous Edit. In my last update, I stated I would look to...

Howdy, After reading my query letter to the writer’s guild, I quickly figured out it’s closer to horseshit than not. As you may recall...

Howdy, Well, I’ve dictated my query letter. On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s not horrible, but it is still shit… I suppose that’s true for any...

Howdy, I lucked out! Shortly after writing my first post about the Dreaded Synopsis, I found a really great resource – Jane Friedman’s...

Howdy, So far 2019 has been a good year for reading – at least for me. Here are the highlights. The Consuming Fire Listened to this one...