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Thursday Thoughts
A day late due to schedule juggling this week; I was working yesterday, and while it was an enjoyable day, it was a hectic one spent running interminably back and forth to the ovens (pies, cookies, cheesecake!).Thought I would talk today about my ritua…
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litRPG is not Cyberpunk … Here’s why
Recently, I moderated a panel at a local Denver area Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. This panel was all about Cyberpunk and the newly emerging genre called litRPG. In a way, it made sense to pair these two things together; after all, if you pull up the Cyberpunk top 100 board on Amazon, you’ll…
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Song Styles
One of the backstory characters in Surgeburnt, Tahir, is deceased (we learn this very early on, since the narrator inherited his powers, so it’s not a spoiler), and the character appears only in flashback scenes and in the narrator’s memories of h…
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Cheats for writing great dialogue
Here are some tips for writing better dialogue which I have picked up through my many failures at writing anything decent. Answer a question with a question. Have your character go off-topic. Don’t forget your action beats. Minimum every four lines of dialogue. Be careful when using ‘word sounds’ instead of action beats. Write:…
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Magic is Real
As a fantasy writer, magic is always a part of my worlds. I revel in designing magic systems and exploring how they might change the world around them. Nothing quite stirs the imagination as magic. Yet, with a degree in physics and a long-running fascination with the secrets of nature, I can’t help but…
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Wednesday Wanderings
Alas for the internet, for it has one terrible consequence: it is now almost impossible to go about singing ridiculously incorrect song lyrics, blissfully ignorant of the truth. A single peek on Google resolves (almost) all questions, so we…
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Feedspot Names Bethturnage.com a Top 40 Ghostwriter Blog
Out of the blue Feedspot sends me this handy dandy little award naming this writer’s blog a top forty ghostwriter blog. Cool. I’ve been a little too busy to post it, but seeing it languish in my draft section made me sad, so I’ll display it now for your perusal. You can see the…
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Song Styles
It’s the most wonderful time of the year …No, really. As a professional musician, I’ve had to start working on my Christmas repertoire, brushing off songs that I haven’t played for nine months. Many of these tunes have been part of my ann…
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#Writing Arts: Master Your Tweet Pitch
The newest kidz on the block are Twitter pitch events where writers pitch their books in 140 characters or less to catch the attention of agents and publishers. If interested in reading more the agents and publishers like your pitch which is an invitation to query them. Yes. You must go through the query…
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Wednesday Wanderings
It’s official: my weekly post has migrated to this day. I work four 10 hour shifts at my new job, which means that I have one day off in the middle of the week, and this is it. A lot of people have winced and said, “Ugh!” when I’ve de…