To Thine Own Writing Be True

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

It’s been an interesting experience getting The Mushroom Shift ready for publication. I mean, here is a novel I wrote almost 25 years ago, and as I’m reading it, and as I’m having my Kindle read it to me as part of the proofreading process, I’m discovering something about it that I hadn’t expected. It’s [...]

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Wanted (No Questions Asked)

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Walter Jon WIlliams is looking for pirated scans of his novels. In this article on Torrent Freak, he explains his rationale, and it’s a good one. Having recently scanned and coded the forthcoming ebook issue of A Death of Honor, I can see the genius of this move. Why bother scanning when there’s someone out [...]

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Piracy on the High E’s!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I’m not sure where you come down on the issue of piracy. Not the Somalis in a speedboat with some vintage Soviet RPG type. The new-fangled method of copying intellectual property that has been the bane of folks from the members of Metallica to J.K. Rowling. And to show that nobody is safe, even I [...]

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The Cliff’s Notes Version of How to Be a Writer

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

A lot of my posts come from questions I get from aspiring writers struggling with some part of the writing process or another. The other day I got an email peppered with questions I had mostly already answered. However, it occurred to me that there might be others out there who, like this particular reader, [...]

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Disenfranchised

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Coming off of a trilogy about Ghostwriting, it’s only appropriate that I address the issue of franchises. After all writing for a franchise is a lot like ghosting – there’s more money involved than the average writer bags for his/er own work, and while your name is on the cover, it’s somebody else’s sandbox you’re [...]

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Size Matters

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Joe Clifford Faust

In a conversation via some comments on this post, Weirdwriter asked me if I wrote many short stories before diving into the novel form. Um, not exactly. I know there’s this conventional wisdom that you start small and work your way up to the big stuff, right? In fact, every creative writing class I ever [...]

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Literary Profiling: The First Novel

Posted on February 15, 2006 by Joe Clifford Faust

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I was tapped to read an ARC of a forthcoming CBA novel, Waking Lazarus by T.L. Hines, with an eye toward providing a blurb for the cover (providing I liked the book). Well, I liked the book, I wrote the blurb, and I’ll review it here when the [...]

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The Process, Part I

Posted on October 20, 2003 by Joe Clifford Faust

I have received a request to describe in detail the process I use to write one of my novels. While that’s supposed to be the function of this blog, I now realize that, while I’ve discussed different aspects of it here and on other parts of this site, I don’t think I’ve ever sat down [...]

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Creative Procrastination

Posted on March 31, 2003 by Joe Clifford Faust

Let’s talk about creative procrastination. The fine art of putting something off while it simmers in your brain. This is an essay I’ve been putting off writing for some time. Seriously. I wasn’t sure I’d studied it enough, but maybe it’s time to start working on it, before it reaches full ripeness. Besides, I received [...]

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Creative Triggers

Posted on March 28, 2003 by Joe Clifford Faust

Well, this was an interesting experience. I seem to have come full circle as far as the ability to develop ideas goes. That’s not an entirely bad thing. I’m glad it worked out like this since I’ve been trying to blog this stuff in my attempts to make sense of the creative process. Last night [...]

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