Barbara G. Tarn's Blog, page 43
January 24, 2019
Random Friday
Dear English Speakers, Stop fussing about pronouns and genders. You have no idea how lucky you are to have only gendered pronouns. In Italian (and French) even adjectives are gendered. So the “pronoun game” mentioned in Chasing Amy doesn’t work in other languages. Besides, you’re lucky. You already have a neutral pronoun. IT. I’m aware […]
January 22, 2019
Writer Wednesday
Wordcount: less than 10K, but I had to stop and check Across Continents before uploading the manuscript for pre-order. And on Sunday I was out all day, so I didn’t catch up. But I did finish draft Zero of book 5, this week I hope to touch it up so that next week I can […]
January 17, 2019
Random Friday
I will try to condense this in a shorter review, but I wanted to talk about 21 lessons for the 21st century. I think everybody should read it, young or old. Especially teens and their teachers (or home-schooling oarents) – and writers. Especially SF writers, but also all kimds of storytellers. It does help to […]
January 15, 2019
Writer Wednesday
Last week I wrote 12K and I’ve reached 3/4 of Book 5 while Mighty Editor is preparing Book 3 for publication. I hope to get done by the end of the week so I can revise all three at the same time before hitting that “publish” button (well, pre-order button, with manuscript). I swear this […]
January 10, 2019
Random Friday
Haven’t been doing much, so I’m posting the Words of Wisdom, Writers on Writing, whatever you want to call them, and happy new writing year!
January 8, 2019
Writer Wednesday
Hope your year started better than mine! On the publishing side, covers were giving problems. Kobo had a glitch so covers didn’t appear in the dashboard – but they were present in the Kobo store. Amazon had the opposite problem! Cover showing in the dashboard and Look Inside, but NOT on the ebook page in […]
January 3, 2019
Random Friday
So, I’m going to stay a little longer on last year. After doing the accounting (which is always depressing, by the way, but I need to do it every year to check how it’s going and if it’s worth keeping going), let me tell you that last year’s best seller was Pilot (Star Minds Lone […]
January 1, 2019
Writer Wednesday
On Sunday I had a panicky moment. Here’s what I posted on my private Facebook profile: End of the year panic. A revised story vanished from Dropbox. Laptop said document no longer existed. In my backup I had deleted the file – I had worked on it from Laptop and not on Dropbox. Fishing it […]
December 27, 2018
Random Friday
I managed to watch all the new DVDs, but I still have a couple on my ToWatch shelf. I was keeping them for when I’ll be able to write the story of my centurion vampire, but maybe I should just watch them and then re-watch them whenever I feel like writing about him – although, […]
December 26, 2018
Writer Wednesday
Last week I wrote close to 15K and by Christmas I managed to more or less wrap up Book 3 and 4 of Future Earth Chronicles. I had to move some words from book 3 to book 4 and rewrite on epilogue and add a new incipit, but at least now both are around 41K […]
