Incandescence

Eh-lahn.

Updated: 25 March 2008 Sent off three queries on my second novel, "All the Places You Forget." Rejections, rejections... Let you all know how it turns out. Cheers, Brad

There are significant difference in stage productions and film productions. I don't think there are currently any guides up on the YWS for the latter, but I've been working on ...

khfan-- The best thing to look for is two things: (1) The agent should not charge you for ANYTHING--no reading fees, no editing, nothing. They should be doing what they ...

gyr-- Preditors & Editors is also a good reference. Cheers! Brad

Most publisher's won't consider your work without an Agent behind it.

Audy, Via is quite right, and I'd like to emphasize that the stereotyping she mentions is even less valid for highly gifted individuals than for "normal' people. Quirks, personality ticks ...

Update: 20 November 2007 Previously: Bethlehem was rejected by HBO--going to set it aside for a while and return after next May. Currently: Potato in the Orchard is coming along ...

1. No different than I critique anything else. 2. I realize this might be difficult for others, but for me I'm almost the same in person as I am over ...

Update: It's been quite a while since I notified everyone of the going-ons with the publishing world. As for now, all three novels in the trilogy -- Chionophobia , Prosthesis ...

Young writers - For the past few weeks there has been intense, yet isolated, sparring on the appropriate approach to being a good critic: what it means, what is expected, ...

Misty-- This would go to explaining why I never comment on grammar--I don't think it's a necessary component of poetic communication, except as a poet might will it so. re: ...

In Neruda's 1971 Nobel lecture, he said the following: ...if we succeed in creating the fetish of the incomprehensible (or the fetish of that which is comprehensible only to a ...

You can't "make" a character death sad. That's the honest truth. Sadness is invoked in your readers by seeing someone/thing die who they have come to either (i) care for ...

Amelia-- Mathematics does not discriminate with its dimensions. Dimensions are a problem of physicists/engineers. But I think pretty easily we can imagine, from some quantum mechanics, that there coul