My short story “The Box in my Pocket” has recently come out in the anthology Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, which is available as a paperback and an e-book. Here it is directly at Amazon (paperback and Kindle e-book) and B&N (for the Nook). I wrote this story in January of 2011. I remember thinking of the [...]
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Sit at the Table Redux
Posted in Arts, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, conventions, determination, learning, sale, sitting at the table, taking risks, writing on March 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »
It’s been a little over a year since I wrote my first Sit at the Table essay, although it feels like exactly a year since it was published the Thursday before FogCon, and guess what today is. Last week I received word that I sold my story “Man on the Moon Day” to Daily Science [...]
Good Enough For What?
Posted in Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, Dunning-Kruger effect, Kris Rusch, practice, publishing, quality, self publishing, uncertainty, writing on March 27, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Resistance against self publishing has been steadily crumbling. Last week a writer friend of mine who had been vehemently opposed to such ideas no more than a year ago even mentioned that she’d consider self publishing. I never expected to hear those words from her, and it’s a powerful illustration for me of the mainstream [...]
Kindred Spirits Lurk in the Rain Forest
Posted in Writing, Life, tagged writing, Amy Sundberg, Rainforest Writers Retreat, kindred spirits, writing retreat, rain forest on March 13, 2012 | 13 Comments »
I returned from Washington late Sunday night, only to find I had brought a bad cold back with me. This is the kind of cold that makes me feel like the distance between my neurons has doubled, so that any thinking I might wish to do happens… very… slowly. So even though I don’t usually talk [...]
About Writing Mind
Posted in Arts, Writing, tagged advice, Amy Sundberg, daydreaming, Jeff VanderMeer, Robin Hobb, word count, writing, writing mind on March 1, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I mentioned in my post The Dangers of Advice that among the common writing advice I don’t follow myself is the adage to write every day. Apparently, Jeff VanderMeer doesn’t write every day either, at least not to a specific word count. So you know, yet more evidence that you should studiously ignore all writing [...]
My Current Obsession (no, it’s not Downton Abbey)
Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged Academy of Forgetting, Amy Sundberg, blogging, novel, writing, YA Novel Challenge on February 28, 2012 | 7 Comments »
My head is in the clouds. Actually, my head is in a fictional boarding school in a remote location in the Canadian Rockies. In other words, I am obsessed by the novel I am currently writing. And when I’m not completely lost in my obsession, my mind invariably turns to the novel I want to [...]
There Is No Magic Bullet
Posted in Arts, Personal Development, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, art, determination, excellence, practice, writing on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes when we are on the road to excellence, we get a little tired. We wish we were already there. We wish the road had a literal signpost saying “You have made it, and you can officially stop worrying and consider yourself to be awesome.” We wonder if we should have chosen something easier to [...]
YA or Adult? How to Tell Them Apart
Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, boy book, dystopia, girl book, narrative voice, POV, writing, YA on January 26, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I was talking to a new friend at Epic ConFusion about YA and the difficulties that many newcomers to the genre (especially those writers who started in adult markets) have in identifying it. This may be the reason why we keep getting these awful panels at sf/f cons that devolve into an hour-long discussion trying [...]
Enough with the Dead Dogs!
Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, dead dogs, emotional manipulation, I love dogs, Nala, tropes, writers, writing on January 19, 2012 | 21 Comments »
My husband often reads out loud to me before we go to sleep. We most often read children’s classics and more recent middle grade novels because I want something interesting but not so exciting that I can’t go to sleep. We’d just finished a few books by Bruce Coville (if you’re interested in MG fiction [...]
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