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Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
In the spirit of making the Yuletide (or other seasonal holiday of your choice) a bit brighter all ‘round: From now through Twelfth Night (5 January 2015), my price for a full-dress line-edit plus a 3-5 page letter of critique drops to a flat $1000 for a standard-weight…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Things I’m thankful for, as a writer: The word-processor/printer combination, a wonder of modern technology that’s eliminated so much of the sheer physical drudgery of turning a story into submittable text.  There are probably writers out there, these days, who never had to wrestle with an electric –…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A trio of links: These people have developed a blight-resistant American chestnut tree, and are now crowdfunding a project to plant 10,000 new trees and start the work of bringing the species back to American forests. Here are some nifty pictures of spherical layer cakes frosted to look…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
I’m not going to talk here about “plot-driven” versus “character-driven” stories, because that’s a distinction made by critics, which is to say, from the outside looking in, whereas most writers find plot and character to be so thoroughly intermingled that talking about one as though it excluded the…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
…that one of the things I’ve always admired about Ursula K. LeGuin is her steadfast refusal to perform the dance of genre disavowal every time the mainstream tries to claim her for one of their own.