With a tip of the hat to Larry Correia. Step 1: Write Book. Step 2: Pick Agent who, based on their past representation, will be interested in your book. Step 3: Submit to Agent. Step 3a: Get Rejected. Return to Step 2. Step 3b: After several iterations of the 3a Loop, throw hands in air… Read More How to Get an Agent, and How to Deal with Failure
In the minds of many authors, there are two ways to write a piece of fiction: Outlining (“Prepping”). You figure out what’s happening, who the characters are, the arcs, everything. You do this before you’ve “written” a single word. Then, when you do sit down, you have a plan. Discovering (“Pantsing”). You sit down and… Read More Prepping vs. Pantsing, Outlining vs. Discovering – Where I come down on the Great Writer Divide
In the midst of fisking the usual gang of idiots about raaaaaaacism, Larry Correia lets drop an interesting factoid: For a long time entertainment tried to lump as many customers as possible into one big box to provide dumb bland mushy product to. To make a living at this stuff you needed to sell to… Read More How ‘Stranger Things’ Got Passed Around Hollywood
Good. He posted on Facebook that he said so, and reaped the whirlwind of idiot Facebook comments. He re-posts his post on the blog, with edits responding to each genre of protest, and it is a delight. A few delights: WHAAA! NO LABELS! You shouldn’t call people Trumpkins!” Forgive me No Labels Police. Writing out… Read More Larry Correia Won’t Vote Trump, Either.
Step 1: Make money as an established genre fiction author, which is “not a real author” according to sad bastards who write lit fic about their feelings. Step 2: Buy a tank. Step 3: NOTHING. There is no third thing. You win at life. Plus, think about it. You would win every argument after that for the… Read More Larry Correia Discovers the Secret to Life
A Song of Ice and Fire, Hold the Ice If you’re on Reddit, you probably noticed or took part in the New Year’s Night vigil of watching George R.R. Martin’s livejournal for the update on The Winds of Winter. I myself did, and it was an instructive lesson in group emotions: first excitement, then frustration,… Read More Content Creation Blues
I read two of these yesterday. It’s that bad. Read for yourself if you doubt me. David Burkehead was somewhat laconic in his fisking, but he hit the theme of “the modern man does not give a moldy dog dropping about half of this nonsense. None of these things define manhood.” Over at Monster Hunter… Read More The New York Times Attempts a Lame “Modern Man” Listicle, Gets Righteously Fisked
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