What Children Fear
I had an interesting conversation with my friend MadUnkieG yesterday that I thought I’d share. We were talking about young adult books and how they age- for...
August 22, 2011
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Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Writing
A good read, and he says some interesting stuff, especially this part: 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. The line of dialogue...
Nathan Bransford’s Advice on How to Write a Novel
Advice from the blog of literary agent Nathan Bransford on how to write a novel: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/08/how-to-write-novel.html A nice collection of notes and tips for would-be novel writers...
Creating a Writer’s Step Sheet in Powerpoint
Since some people love their powerpoint, I thought I’d share the following I found on how to make a writer’s step sheet using it. Enjoy! From eZinearticles.com:...
To Free or Not to Free 2- The Revenge
Last night I was chatting with a friend and discussing the audiobooks conundrum mentioned earlier this week- if you give the audiobook away for free, will they...
To Free or not to Free, that is the Question.
One of the writers that a great many in the podcast novel world look up to is J.C. Hutchins, both because of the quality of his work...
How to Write a Book in 3 Days, by Michael Moorcock
I stumbled across this article today, it’s a collection of advice from Michael Moorcock about how one would write a book in 3 days if one had...
The Hard Balance- Accessibility versus Readability in SF and Fantasy
Something I had to struggle with when I started to write Twin Stars was the simple question of how much Science Fiction I wanted to put into...
January 18, 2010
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Duotrope's Digest
Today while looking through the Podcastle submission guidelines I stumbled across Duotrope’s Digest, a search-able database of publishers for poetry and prose. Free, and very well set...
Gu Long on writing Action Novels
Gu Long was one of the great WuXia novelists of Asia, and this is a translation from the introduction of Horzion, Bright Moon, Sabre(天涯, 明月, 刀) by...