Essays: Philosophy

Not everything I write about writing is concrete; some of it is fuzzy-headed musing about what writing, and writing fantasy, mean to me. Some of the essays here are old, predating my first publication. Others are newer. All of them express something I believe about writing, the experience and meaning thereof.

Thoughts on genre
• A Cultural Fantasy Manifesto
• Frazer's Goddamned Golden Bough
• Hard Fantasy
• Magic Versus Science
• Respecting History
• There's Something About Monarchy
• The Literary Line

Thoughts on writing
• Apprentice, Journeyman, Master
• The Heart of It All
• Take Care of Your Snowflakes
• Grammar and Gramarye
• We All Use Language, But . . . .
• Writing as Work
• The Writer at Play
• How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Other
• Why I will never write a Mayan apocalypse novel
• Stars in Our Eyes
• My Weak Spots
• Reading In, Reading Out