By James Scott Bell My neighbor John loves to work on his hot rod. He’s an automotive whiz and tells me he can hear when something is not quite right with the engine. He doesn’t hesitate to pop the hood, grab his bag of tools and start to tinker. He’ll keep at it until the […]
Read More The 7 Tools of DialogueFlashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians by Lin Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the High Fantasy Reading Challenge and the Genre Non-Fiction Reading Challenge. This is an outstanding collection of some of the best in classic sword and sorcery writing! I had heard of all of these fine fantasy writers, […]
Read More Book Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin Carter. . . plus one by Robert J. Sawyer, who is himself a successful Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora winning Canadian science fiction author. Just sayin’. By Robert J. Sawyer There are countless rules for writing success, but the most famous ones, at least in the science-fiction field, are the five coined by the late, great […]
Read More Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules of WritingBy Rachel Hartman #30days30authors I grew up in the Middle Ages. Well, not the Middle Ages exactly, but in Kentucky, which is close, and with a father who believed that if you didn’t have garden soil under your nails, you just weren’t working hard enough. We lived in the middle of town, but he was […]
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Read More I Write to Create MyselfToday’s guest post is excerpted from Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts by Ryan Holiday, published on July 18, 2017, by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2017 by Ryan Holiday. When I work on a project—with clients, but particularly with my […]
Read More The Marketing Rule You Can’t ForgetBy Karen Grigsby Gates #30days30authors Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her. First: “Geez, I can write a better story than that!” And second: “Somebody got paid for writing […]
Read More Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into the StoryBy Joe Bunting The best way to become a better writer is to write and then to publish your writing, whether you publish it on a blog, in a book, or with a close friend. It’s only by practicing writing, and getting feedback on it, that you can improve. Read the full article at The Write Practice. Hey there! I’ve still […]
Read More 29 Quotes that Explain How to Become a Better WriterBy Zachary Jarvis #30days30authors When people think of an eBook success story, they tend to think about Fifty Shades of Grey. It was an eBook that was released by a small Australian company that also did print on demand and became a worldwide phenomenon. The Writer’s Coffee Shop didn’t have a big marketing budget, and […]
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