Book View Café
Book View Café is a cooperative publishing effort among authors across all genres, from science fiction to romance to historical to mainstream. Come on in, sit down, grab a cup of coffee and sample our daily offerings.
New Book Alert
Blogs by Author
Follow Us On The Web!
- Nostalgia Vacations and Indoor Volcanoes ... 21 hours ago
- “Nahiku West” a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist ... 1 day ago
- Stalking the Wild Muse: Writer Rituals & Habits ... 1 day ago
- Spy Princess a Mythopoeic Award Finalist ... 2 days ago
- Writing Tools and the March of Technology ... 2 days ago
- WWW Wednesday 5-15-2013 ... 3 days ago
- BVC Eats: greasy food revisited – Baked Eggs ... 3 days ago
- BVC Announces Conscientious Inconsistencies by Nancy Jane Moore ... 4 days ago
- Some Things Never Grow Old ... 4 days ago
- On “casting” while you write. Or not. ... 5 days ago
Browse Categories
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Author Blogs
- A Commonplace Book Pati Nagle
- aberwyn's Journal Katharine Kerr
- David D. Levine's blog
- Deborah J. Ross
- Hahvi.net Linda Nagata
- incipit vita nova Amy Sterling Casil
- Into the Labyrinth K.E. Kimbriel
- Jennifer Stevenson.com
- Leah Cutter's Blog
- Life Among the Lipizzans Judith Tarr
- Lois Gresh's Blog
- Maya Culpa Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
- Oached Pish Sherwood Smith
- Patricia Rice's Blog
- Planet Pooks Patricia Burroughs
- Pushing a Snake Up a Hill Jeffrey Carver
- Ramblin' Phyl Irene Radford’s Live Journal
- Singularity Watch Sue Lange
- Steven Harper Piziks
- Suricata's Burrow and Bar Laura Anne Gilman’s Live Journal
- Swan Tower Marie Brennan
- The Cosa Nostradamus On-Line Characters from Laura Anne Gilman’s Retrievers series
Author Sites
- Brenda W. Clough's website
- David D. Levine's website
- Katharine Eliska Kimbriel's website
- Laura Anne Gilman Writer, Editor, Tired Person.
- Leah Cutter's website
- Linda Nagata's Website
- Lois Gresh's website
- Mystic Fig Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
- P. G. Nagle's historical fiction
- Pati Nagle's website
- Patricia Rice
- Phyllis Irene Radford's Website
- Planet Pooks Patricia Burroughs
- Science Fiction Worlds of Jeffrey Carver
- Sherwood Smith's Website
- Sue Lange
- Swan Tower Marie Brennan’s Website
- Vonda N. McIntyre's website
Search Print Titles @ Powell’s
Calendar
Site Business
Cafe Authors Area
Daily Archives: January 14, 2009
EVERGREEN: On Becoming a Professional Amateur # 9: Serendipity (or Writing by the Seat of Your Pants)
Sample sentence: Baldric concocted a cunning plan to scare the killer lawn gnome into staying away from the cave entrance so he could sneak in. Writers sometimes use expositional sentences like this to cover plot holes. We’re writing by the seat … Continue reading
Posted in Writers on Writing
Tagged amateurism, craft of writing, plotting, professionalism
4 Comments