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April 28, 2009
April 25, 2009
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New York Times Bestselling Author Scott Sigler’s The Rookie has been called his best book by many junkies. Available previously in podcast-only form, now he’s selling limited edition hardcover copies on his site!
Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, The Rookie is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of “Any Given Sunday” with the space opera style of “Star Wars” and the criminal underworld of “The Godfather.”
Aliens and humans alike play positions based on phy
April 23, 2009
ISBW #115 - Beginnings and Prologues
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I come up from illness to say hi and talk about stuff!
My Story “Mother Sponge” came out in Hub magazine!
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Beginnings, prologues, and yes, you are allowed to suck!
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6 yr old Nicholas Skidmore, author
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April 13, 2009
Why #amazonfail matters
As of Monday morning (Eastern time), we still don’t know if the Amazon issues this weekend were a glitch, homophobia (and disabilityphobia and feministphobia and rapesurvivorphobia), or outside attack. Some people are willing to give the benefit of the doubt pointing out that the failing possibly came from the weakness of large companies with sprawling departments (but doesn’t excuse it)-Patrick Nielsen Hayden on how large corporations work, and Simon Bisson on why Amazon hasn’t fixed things imm
April 10, 2009
The pile of shame
(I haven’t written in two days, as I have had a migraine that comes and goes. Right now I’m fighting it with a prescrip. pain med. Which leaves me a wee loopy. Hence the lack of links in this post. I’m sure Google can help you if you are interested in anything here. Thanks for your understanding.)
Writers have to read. Seriously. How in the hell do you intend to know how to write a book if you don’t read them?
I remember when I helped moderate the forums at Lulu.com and I read a post about a write
April 8, 2009
POV- but not the way you’re thinking
I’ve been reading the classic book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,*”and I’ve been seeing how it can apply in my personal career. It’s a pretty amazing book. One of the key principles is putting yourself in the other person’s shoes to see what they want out of the situation.
In writing, we as writers ask established writers for advice/critiques, ask agents to represent us, we ask editors to publish us, we ask reviewers to read and review (favorably, hopefully!), we ask other authors to
ISBW #114 - Feedback
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Show Notes:
I’m doing a new thing with War - subscribe to the premium feed at the Heaven site!Promo: Dice JockiesYou must check out the new interactive storytelling site, Storytron!David Moldawer and I are running a beginning writer workshop at Balticon this year!Create your own ebooks at Smashwords.com, you can also place your work at Scribd.com and Fictionpress.For scriptwriting, Celtx 2.0 was just released.I say
April 7, 2009
Writing 1000 words with someone else’s pen
OK, so the metaphor is kinda lame.
Not a lot of news this morning (people still mostly talking about the #*fail discussions). So I’ll talk about writer’s block.
I am sometimes guilty of scoffing at someone else’s problems, easily thinking up two or three ready solutions and wondering why they can’t just fix everything. That is, until the problem hits me and I feel it first-hand. Then I understand.
I had been scoffing at the concept of writer’s block. If you’re a writer, then you can write something
