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Blackwood's Journal -- Poetry, Books, and Writing

A literary blog covering books, writing, and poetry. I mostly write about fiction, especially fantasy, science fiction, and mystery. The poetry discussion is mostly about formal and epic poetry.
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Author: Meriall Blackwood
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Computer Vacation

Nov 18, 2009
Hi, everyone. I haven’t abandoned the blog. I got the flu, and I’ve been taking a vacation from the computer for the first time in more than a decade. I’ll probably be back next week.

The Challenge of Description: First Impressions

Oct 29, 2009
Previously I mentioned that I was having trouble with my new introduction for Shazemar, protagonist of my fantasy poem The Winds of Winter. I had a pretty decent description of him as an individual character — of the things that distinguish him from...

"Booking the Future"

Oct 27, 2009
I had a root canal today. I’ve got another article on description mostly written, but I’m not up to finishing it tonight. So here’s a particularly interesting post on future publishing: Booking the Future, by Ransom Stephens Is the book dead? Can the...

The Challenge of Description

Oct 26, 2009
A few weeks ago I was working on a late scene in The Winds of Winter, and it wasn’t coming together. I was wondering whether I should introduce an element that Shazemar (a sorcerer, the main character) deals with in my imagination, but which I hadn’t...

Marketing Fiction and Poetry 2

Oct 23, 2009
Continued from a previous post discussing differences between buying fiction and nonfiction, in which I noted that my experience as a bookbuyer suggests that some marketing techniques that work for nonfiction won’t work as well for fiction. There’s...


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