They are playing my song

Seems "Break and Enter" is famous before it's even submitted to publishers. First Rachel blogged about it. Then Amora blogged about it. (Check her out. She's hilarious.)

I then blogged over at Slash and Burn (another year round-up. I think I start to sound like I'm gloating, but my year WAS awesome and it makes a nice change to all the misery out there. Really. Here's one blogger/writer who is happy. Come share the joy.)

Then I said something careless on Facebook the other day about not wanting to compete with Josh Lanyon for somebody's reading attention (because he's awesome, writing is no competition, and I'd most likely lose that, anyway :) ) - which apparently sold my book to that reader (see, a little fun and snark goes a long way... but then I never see how many sales I'm losing because people might think I'm an ass).

Anyway, Lee Brazil blogged about reading First Blood. And yeah, I'm way more interested in the "dark side", the human soul in extremis and the hour before it goes dark. All the Prussian blues and indigos open the soul and bring back all those memories and the sheer frailty of it all. I used to walk a lot in the dark (not metaphorically - I used to have a dog, a chow), and those were the hours in the day when I did all the thinking and pondering and plotting and discussing stuff with myself. I should really go back to that habit.

I blogged over at Savvy Authors about the fact that I believe that writers are not each other's competition. That essay is "premium content", so if you're not a member of Savvy Authors, I'm afraid you can't read it. I might gather them all into an ebook at a later date and publish my musings on writing - and what I see happening in "the industry".

Lastly, enough about me. (Yes, really.)

Here's a great link about SF/Fantasy writing. Great free resource that covers pretty much all angles. Another writer "paying it forward".

An interesting essay by David Brin on writing. I thought the big noble cause was history. Then I thought it's really writing. But Brin has a point. Human sweat art. We can't help it.

And here's a great post on writer's block. I'm keeping that for reference for when I've run into the next brick wall.

And that's it.