The Inner Dragon
The hardest part of the writing life isn’t about digging up a worthy story, finding time to write, polishing your prose until it shines...
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KAY KENYON
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"Kenyon takes the nuts and bolts of SF and weaves pure magic around them." --Sean Williams
- Oct 6, 2013
Mini reviews: SF, Historical, Horror
The Darwin Elevator Jason M. Hough The world has one outpost free of the plague. It’s in Darwin, Australia, where a mysterious and...
- Aug 22, 2013
Introverts and the Doldrums
This post is a repeat of one in my Writing for Introverts series. (To read them all, see “Blog Categories” in the side bar.) I’m...
- Jul 15, 2013
Fast read, immersive read
Snappy chapters and still a deep read. What’s the best kind of chapter? I’d like some feedback. I’ve been hearing a lot lately about the...
- Jun 11, 2013
What to do while you’re waiting to get published
Recently someone told me that they’re a finalist in a writing competition at a major conference. They were excited, and I was excited...
- Jun 7, 2013
Writing back and forth
Lucca, Italy. I got lost here, once for a bad hour or so. They built these winding streets to confuse an invading army. And tourists! My...
- Jun 3, 2013
Grounding the strange
I’m having a fascinating time moving into the world of the fantasy novel. How lucky we are in SF/F to have such a diverse genre to play...
- May 30, 2013
The mess of the novel.
I must confess I do not know. And, mind you, I’m writing my twelfth novel. It’s not as though I’m unprepared. I have an impressive...
- May 23, 2013
Fantasies as re-imagined history
Right now on Black Gate magazine: Mucking with the Mundane, my take on fantasies set in alternate historical periods. How do authors get...
- May 6, 2013
Ups and downs
It was an up and down week. It’s not the week I would normally talk about. But these are the scenes from the cutting room floor, the...
- Apr 29, 2013
Convergence of ideas
I have no idea how the brain works, but in a novel-writing brain (er, mine at least) it works from convergence. Or at least that’s my...
- Apr 15, 2013
Writing what we don’t know
Musing today on that sage advice, write what you know. Sounds like a good idea, but is it? Not if we take it too literally. We don’t...
- Apr 8, 2013
Why I write
Dear readers and friends,My blog is changing. I’ll be sharing more personal perspectives on the writing life rather than teaching...
- Apr 3, 2013
The next fiction dream
Dear readers and friends,My blog is changing. I’ll be sharing more personal perspectives on the writing life rather than teaching...
- Feb 25, 2013
The lovely deep of the fantastic
Cover of a recent favorite fantasy book, N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. When people ask me why I write science fiction and...
- Jan 28, 2013
Has science fiction made me a better person?
The question might be asked. And it was, on SF Signal this past week. Chiming in were Tobias Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Harry...
- Dec 26, 2012
Kenyon’s best of 2012
OK, looking back on the year, what were the truly memorable moments? Here is a judicious and nuanced analysis of my year, based upon the,...
- Dec 17, 2012
On discontent
The other day a writer who had only a few short stories published confessed to me that he felt rather worthless. All this work and no...
- Dec 12, 2012
Six great books to gift, to read
What makes a great Christmas gift? Well, what am I going to say, except: A book! The year brought me fewer great reads than I wished for,...
- Nov 6, 2012
How to keep your focus
We are a distracted society. Amid phones in our hip pockets, movie must-sees, and political blather, it’s hard to concentrate on any one...
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