Welcome: A Writer’s Corner
Gideon Smith
Welcome to my home on the web. This site contains my updates on books and my blog. The latter is a mix of musings on writing, Twitter, and other people’s work I admire.
Latest blog posts:
Writers: Do Your own Thing
All of the typical goals we have as beginning writers – writing for publication in a magazine, or to win a writing contest, push us to follow convention. To look at what exists, what has won, what has been published by that magazine, and make something that will win over the same editor. In other…
Making Unlikable Characters… Likable
One challenge all writers face is ensuring the characters they write about have some minimal level of likability. After all, if no one likes anything about your characters, who is going to want to read about them? This can be especially challenging if you are writing a reprehensible character. The most common approach is to…
Experimenting with Dictation for Writing
Belonging to writers’ groups there’s always a lot of ideas that are thrown around. One of them is using voice dictation. While I have experimented with this to create fiction, it has never been terribly successful for me. It seems that for fiction at least my voice goes more rapidly than my brain. However, the…
Exorcising Cliche
When we are reading, we often remember short phrases or sentences that somehow made something fresh again for us. That captured an image or a feeling vividly. The opposite of that is when we run across the same tired cliche we have heard a thousand times (and yes, I deliberately used a tired cliche to…
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My Writing
To give you an idea of what I am working on…
Current Projects
Schism of the Mages’ Order
Editing
107k Epic fantasy novel
Leather and Steel
Querying
98k Epic fantasy novel
Short Stories
Writing
Science Fiction
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Gideon Smith
Scientist, nerd, science fiction and fantasy fan, author.
Gideon Smith 