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Q&A Thursday

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: January 31, 2013

So this Friday, I’ll be traveling. Rather than leave you with all your unanswered questions for another week, I thought I’d move Q&A Friday up a day because I care. As always, if you should have any questions, feel free to leave them here in the comments section, send them to me via Twitter (@ALeeMartinez) [...]

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First Post of the New Year

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: January 3, 2013

If you write enough, it will eventually become a story. It might not seem like it, but it basically comes down to writing as many words as it takes to get something worthwhile. While there’s no doubt that practice makes it easier, and that good feedback helps speed up the process considerably, there’s nothing that [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Accomplishment, Devotion, Fiction Writer, Glamor, Illusion, Magical Gift, Misconceptions, New Year, No Doubt, Struggle, Stuff, Writing Fiction | 5 Comments

Ask a Smart Guy

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: June 26, 2012

Time for another Q and A with a semi-famous, mostly obscure novelologist. @_Mech_ asks “When you have writer’s block, what is your cure?” A very common question. I’d love to be able to give you an easy answer, so I will. Writer’s block doesn’t exist. It is a boogie man created by people who [...]

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On Writing: Keep It Simple

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 15, 2010

The best advice I can give on writing: Keep it simple. You don’t often hear this. I don’t know why. Maybe because if people knew how easy it was to write a story, they’d stop paying professional novelologist to do it and just do it themselves. Although perhaps easy is the wrong word because novelology [...]