From the monthly archives: October 2011
If you hadn’t noticed, we’re doing some changes to the blog right now, which is extra stressful cause I am currently at World Fantasy Con. But I moved hosts, am dealing with getting plugins loaded, and will be restoring the pages and widgets and themes when I can.
For the fabulists, I am installing NEW [...]
A lot of storytelling advice talks about the “hook” – how you need to make people really interested in the story right off the bat. Unfortunately, a lot of times writers take that too far and start their story with an action sequence they think will make us excited about the story, but they do [...]
Welcome to Jeremy Robinson’s Great Kindle Giveaway and Blog Tour.
“Hurray for free Kindles!” you say, but who the hell is Jeremy Robinson? Allow me to introduce myself. I’m the author of eleven mixed genre novels, published in ten languages, including the popular fantasy YA series, THE LAST HUNTER, and the fast-paced [...]
I’ve said many times that my biggest problem with writing is fear. But this morning I realized it goes beyond that. We’re all afraid. Being afraid is OK. In fact, the meaning of courage is not being unafraid, but acting even though you are afraid.
People flatter me frequently by saying they don’t know “how [...]
Ad-free, and with all the swear words left in- including full conversations that had to be deleted – this is not one to miss.
Addendum- i know there is an issue with the sign-up for the Fabulists currently. We’re working on it. Thanks for your patience.
Now, this contains an interview with Chuck Wendig, creator of the Terrible Minds blog, and the author of the upcoming Blackbird from Angry Robot. This is the clean, edited interview. Fabulists will get the unedited interview, and it is much longer, as Chuck and I got foul, silly, and brainstormed comics for DC. (I’m [...]
I asked Twitter and G+ to post questions while I recorded, and this is what I got!
I did not include the one about fish.
ISBW #220
00:28 State of the Mur: working on lots of assignments, waiting for Playing For Keeps 2 contract, zombie flash fiction to appear in J.R. Blackwell’s Shelter [...]
I’ve said in the podcasts that I dislike absolute rules. I always get suspicious when someone says, “NEVER use prologues” or “ALWAYS go through and kill all your adverbs” or, today’s topic, “NEVER write in passive voice.”
Passive voice is powerful. Don’t believe me? Listen to politicians, some of the most powerful people in the [...]
We hear constantly that our world is contradictory. We tell children to be creative and innovative, and they can be anything, but when they step a little outside the lines, we fret. She’s not like the other children! He’s drawing monsters while the others are drawing horses! Our children must be mentally ill!
While mental [...]
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