by Melinda Snodgrass | May 29, 2013 | Blog
In addition to being obsessed about this current novel I’m going to have some fun with the Mass Effect story. There’s a big riff about learning to cook, and I described a number of meals and dishes so I’ve decided to post the recipes for the dishes that were prepared in the story. From the Spectre’s Kitchen? Cooking with Shepard? Cuisine a la N7? 🙂 I have to talk to Corie about where to place these recipes. Hey, it keeps me out of bars and away from the X-Box,...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 29, 2013 | About Writing
I’m hit that point in the third Edge novel were all the dominoes have been arranged, and I went flick with a finger, and now they are falling as I race toward the climax. I love this point in a book. I don’t want to stop. I cancelled my riding lesson today. I didn’t get to the gym. I didn’t eat. Now I’m trying to make some dinner because I can’t keep going without food, but I don’t want to stop. These are the moments you live for as a writer. I...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 28, 2013 | Blog
I’m starting to develop a complex. This Phillipa Bornikova chic seems to be surpassing the Snodgrass. 🙂 Of course the core personality has been busy writing a movie, and is just about to finish a new novel, that damn that Phillipa is tearing things up. Okay, joking aside. I don’t go looking for reviews — good, bad or indifferent. Writers are fragile little bunnies and bad reviews hurt, and make me feel helpless because the book is done and published and there’s not...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 27, 2013 | The Craft of Writing
A few months ago I had sent out a tweet about the power of myth and how you deny it at your peril. My off-handed remark was read by Aidan Moher who runs the website A Dribble of Ink. He contacted me, and asked if I would do a guest post for his site jumping off from that one throw away line about myth. I was both flattered and intimidated, but I tackled it, and it forced me to really think about stories. Why I like them. Why I tell them. What about them makes them work. Well, my...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 27, 2013 | Blog
It’s very odd, but it seems that the writers at BioWare and I were on some strange wave length. I wrote and completed my Mass Effect story months ago. I had delayed posting it because I had other deadlines, but now a section a week is going up over in WRITING section on my website. Meanwhile this DLC, Citadel is released. I had resisted buying any of the Mass Effect 3 downloads, but after a conversation with someone I decided to give this one a look. And it’s sort of eerie how...
