Posts from — August 2010
Website is Complete!
Finally, after about two weeks worth of work, and lots of stumbles and hair-pulling along the way, the website is now fully integrated into WordPress. Please do stop by and take a look around. I’ve expanded the fiction section to include notes on each story, and added more entries to the resources section. For back-end fun, try this link, or type a word into the search bar that you know won’t be on the site (I’ve tested and “porcupines” does not show up anywhere on the site 
). The header features eight different images that rotate each time you refresh a page (sometimes anyway. The randomness sometimes means the same header appears 3 times in a row.).
Now that this is all done, I can finally go back to working on the novel. It feels like it’s been far too long since I have….
ETA: btw, the url is now www.tlmorganfield.com
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August 30, 2010 2 Comments
New Review of Eight Against Reality
Found another review of the Anthology Eight Against Reality. Luke Forney of The OLD Luke Reviews had this to say about my story “Love, Blood and Octli”:
A tale that worked myth into narrative in a brilliant way (too bad the Mythopoeic Award is only for novels), this story was great in almost every way.
Visit the OLR website to read the rest of the review.
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August 27, 2010 No Comments
Using Critiques: Part 4: You’ve taken it, so now it’s your turn to dish it out
This is a been a very long time in coming and I apologize for having put it off for so long (curse impossible deadlines!), but here we are finally, at the final installment of the critique series. If you have yet read the first three parts, I recommend going back and starting at the beginning before reading below.
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In the first three parts, we covered the basics of getting critiques and how to use them for your own work, but in truth that’s probably the least useful part of critiquing. Crazy, I know! It’s of course great to get feedback on your own work and find out what others think works or doesn’t work, but the true value of critiquing is in giving critiques to others. Because critiquing is the best way to learn how to write better. Critiquing teaches us to look critically at how and why things don’t work, and how and why they do, and the lessons we learn from critiquing other people’s work can be used to improve our own work. This is why you want to become a good critiquer. And if you want to get critiques of your own work, chances are that you’re going to have to critique other people’s work. No one likes to critique the work of someone who never returns the favor, and who can blame them? Critique as much and as often as you can, and try to develop professional relationships with your fellow critiquers. After all you’re also in search of your dedicated reader and maybe even potential future private critique group members.
So what exactly is involved in critiquing?
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August 18, 2010 2 Comments
Using Critiques: Part 3: Where to get critiques, and how to develop lasting professional relationships through them.
– Originally published 4/26/2010 @ LiveJournal
I had this done on Friday, but things were too hectic for me to be able to edit it until today. But here it is!
Part 1 is here, part 2 is here.
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So far we’ve talked about how to use critiques, but the big question those just starting out might have is “But how do I get critiques?” There are many ways, some of them more expensive (and in some cases less effective) than others, but there’s probably one out there that will work for you. So let’s go through this.
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August 16, 2010 No Comments
Using Critiques: Part 2: I’ve got a pile of critiques, but what do I do with them?
– Originally published 4/16/2010 @ LiveJournal
If you haven’t read Part One, it’s here.
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So you’ve done the brave thing: you’ve put a finished story out there for critique, and you’ve waited and waited, and now you have a slug of critiques sitting in front of you. Now what do you do?
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August 16, 2010 1 Comment
