As I’ve announced before, a good bit of Last Tomorrow was written on the fly. Like the US Navy in WWII, I simply went around difficulties. That’s fun, but at some point, you have to force those little hidden Japanese jungle plot holes (I’m getting all the elasticity this metaphor has, thank you very much) to… Read More The Downside of Pantsing
The human character has been ill-served by nature: we tend to consider matters carefully after the fact, not before. -Quintus Curtius Rufus
I laid out the steps some weeks ago on my Ello page. If you like having your stuff iBooks, Tablo takes much of the work out for you. Here’s the basics: Step 1 – Put Your Book on Tablo. You can write (or copy-paste) your work there with their Bookmaker software, which is intuitive and… Read More How to Publish Stuff on iBooks, using Tablo…
I find myself aggrieved Yet insufficient to express the same; For it requires a great and thunderous speech -Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing: Here are a few quotations about creating first drafts to inspire all of us to keep writing: (https://pixabay.com) “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” … via Quotations on Writing First Drafts — charles french words reading and writing
Though royal purple soothes his pride, And snowy pearls his neck adorn, Nero in all his riot lives The mark of universal scorn. -Boethius
Good Post at madgeniusclub about making sure your readers are getting the cues you’re giving them, and more importantly, not reading cues that you don’t intend to be there: You need to be aware that if you’ve got a strong mystery plot, you should be putting in the cues for the red herrings and the… Read More Vlad the Impaler and Cue-ing Your Readers
Since reading some Raymond Carver, I’ve worked with the idea that short fiction doesn’t have to be a mini-novel. It can be a scene. It’s given me the confidence to do knock some short stories out. I’m working on one now that’s going to be for submission to one of the magazines Author Publish keeps… Read More When Stories Balloon
One of the difficulties of approaching art of any kind is learning to drop your prejudices when encountering it. This is true regardless of what class of art you’re talking about. It’s very easy to dismiss something you haven’t read as without value, because if it had value, you’d have already appreciated it, right?… Read More Of Conan and Carver
Today, with The Devil Left Him out and available, I’d like to talk a little about the connection between Jesus and Barrabbas, and the latter’s role in the Biblical story. 1st Century Judea had a number of divisive sects vying for control of what Judaism meant. The Sadducees, the priests, were the most Hellenized, the most… Read More Barabbas was a Terrorist?
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