It’s time to face facts and ‘fess up: I’m not going to meet the goals I set back here. While disappointed, I don’t feel I’ve let myself down or relaxed on my commitment to write. I’ve made some good progress, but life interfered in a …
I’ve mentioned before that there are some thematic worldbuilding similarities between Scylla and Charybdis and Surgeburnt: both are settings that have “recovered” from the apocalypse; both address a backlash against current society’s constan…
Shout out to my awesome buddy, and amazingly talented writer friend, eden Hudson. Her new book, Jubal Van Zandt and the Garden of Time (Book 4), drops today!!! The series is wickedly good—sort of gritty, grimdark, futuristic Urban Fantasy with a twist. If you haven’t tried it, check it out for 99 cents. *** Deadly […]
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I’ve mentioned before, on this blog and elsewhere, what incredible value Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube lectures are to new writers. I had no formal training in writing, what with my background in Physics as well as Computer Engineering. It was the Sanderson lectures that helped me take a hobby and craft it into something more serious. […]
One of the best recommendations I can make for fellow writers is this: critique the stories of others.We all take for granted the advantages of having someone else read our work, from big picture review to catching typos that our eyes just skip o…
OK, not strictly SFF related, but we’ll call it a related look at narrative structure and move on, shall we … In descending order of brilliance: Kiefer Sutherland (who by the way has a lot of names – Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland) The cheesy dialogue The plot – you don’t need to …
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