Xandra Gregory

The Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns

Building Worlds

| June 30, 2006

There’s nothing quite like the thrill I get from building a world and populating it with people, customs, situations, and a history. I know we’re supposed to focus on character, and how plot is character and all that, but I just get this pumped-up thrill at coming up with a world for the people in [...]

Under the Gun is Situation Normal Around Here

| June 22, 2006

If you’re a writer, what’s your writing process like? Do you write, and pronounce it golden, having plotted out, hashed and rehashed your ideas before typing “Chapter One?” Or do you start from some arbitrary point and write whatever emerges from your subconscious, and then when the dust settles, you tear it apart, keep what [...]

I Have a Great Ass

| June 14, 2006

…too bad it seems to be on my head half the time. :/ So this past weekend, I attended Lori Foster’s Readers and Authors Get-Together and had a great time at this relaxed and informal event. Around 45 authors were in attendance and almost 3000 USD was raised for our local battered womens’ shelter. I [...]

Mental Acuity

| June 6, 2006

So. Here I am, under a tight deadline for a new anthology to which I have the privilege of contributing a Futuristic. The subject matter for me is a goldmine of ideas, and I’m suffering no shortage of them. My shortage, however, lies in words. This is supposed to be a novella, dammit. And an [...]

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