Posted in REAL WORLD, Business on April 8th, 2008 9 Comments »
It’s something I joke about, but it’s true just the same: It’s a good thing I’m a freelance writer who receives regular assignments or I’d be playing Tetris all day. Query? Shop around? Try to charm a new editor? No, no, please no.
So you can imagine how I feel with regards to marketing my fiction, […]
Posted in Movie Talk on April 7th, 2008 5 Comments »
Be the hero of your own story.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched a movie hew so closely and so explicitly to theme. Yet this little film about a girl living on a South Pacific island, and who has amazing adventures, provides writers a wonderful lesson in how theme informs story. For […]
Posted in Interviews on April 4th, 2008 8 Comments »
If you missed parts 1 and 2 of my conversation with Blake Snyder, the brilliant storytelling/screenwriting analyst and author of Save the Cat and Save the Cat Goes to the Movies, do yourself a favor and catch up: click HERE and then HERE. In this final segment of our discussion, we talk about the storyteller’s […]
Posted in REAL WORLD on April 3rd, 2008 7 Comments »
Easter weekend saw me in attendance at Swancon, a speculative fiction convention held annually here in Perth, Western Australia. While Writers’ Festivals are attended mostly by readers, conventions like Swancon attract readers, gamers and fans, and most of the readers are also aspiring writers. Readers of speculative fiction (think science fiction, fantasy, horror and a […]
Posted in Business on April 2nd, 2008 5 Comments »
I fell behind with the WU Google Notebook last week, but it’s updated now. Check the Notebook HERE for news. Here’s what amounts to probably the biggest industry bang: Amazon is making moves to elminate the middle man, publishing things onsite themselves instead of using on-print demand services. This has big implications for writers who […]
Posted in REAL WORLD on April 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I thought you might enjoy this, from NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac:
Today is April Fools’ Day, a holiday celebrating practical jokes of all kinds. Some people say that April Fools’ Day began in France in 1582 when the Gregorian replaced the Julian calendar, making New Year’s Day fall on January 1st instead of April 1st. At […]
Posted in Health on April 1st, 2008 5 Comments »
That is a mold of a butt. Probably a nicer butt than mine, but a butt just the same. I have a similar imprint on my chair after this past week. See, I had some good news–a request for a full–and felt the strong urge to read through my manuscript. One. More. Time. After not […]
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