Writer Tamago

Hey cats and kitties. My enthusiasm after coming off a morning of writing has cooled, having been back in the office for about an hour and a half, but what a glorious morning it was! I wrote the first draft of my Substance outline for Taos, read through all the comment posts that I'd gotten, [...]

Although at this point in time the new DC 52 are sort of the moderately scuffed DC 52, I still want to take a moment to weigh in with some comments. Particularly, Catwoman was held up as a reprehensible example of what would be wrong with the new comics. Well, I've read a lot of [...]

This is what I've been doing, and will continue doing until I am done with the first floppy unwieldy first draft, and consequently NaNoWriMo. I hope to get another entry in of The Standard Bearer this week, as well as a comparison of the worst of DC's new 52, with a better DC new 52. [...]

Here's Darice! She completes our set of Viable Paradise XIII interviews here at the Tamago. Please enjoy! Tamago: How long have you wanted to be a writer? Darice: I think my mother still has the first book I wrote, when I was five—it was about a cat and a mouse, and owed quite a bit [...]

Still treading water at the day job, folks, but a quick pop in to tell you all that's right with the world. 1. The Mississippi Personhood amendment was defeated. While I was getting my oil changed yesterday morning, Fox News went so far as to say the amendment was too extreme, in that it didn't [...]

The Standard Bearer and her loyal Companion returned home. Their friends had held the keep in their absence, and the influence of the keep had attracted more people. A village grew up around the keep, but the Standard Bearer made sure that people knew for whom the keep was kept. There was a rumbling among [...]

Recently, I plugged Nancy Kress' book Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities that Keep Readers Captivated as a great book about developing character. I'd like to add to that recommendation Bullies, Bastards, and Bitches: Writing the Bad Guys of Fiction. Jessica Page Morrell spends pages talking about the intensity of these complicated characters, encouraging readers [...]

Today we hear from the second German writer at VP XIII, Christian Walter. Tamago: How long have you wanted to be a writer? Christian: That depends. Do you mean the concept, the idea of being a writer or the cold, reality of it? Regarding the former, for a long time, though I don't know how [...]