30 Jul
This year is the first year that Aaron Allston and I will be teaching writing at DragonCon in Atlanta, over the Labor Day weekend.
Aaron and I have put together 12 hours of writing workshops. You can buy a pass for the whole of them, or pick them up ala carte during the convention. (The [...]
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09 May
Okay, so I found this website that allows you to do cool little animations. Check this out:
Yes, yet another way to waste time on the net!
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12 Mar
One of the questions authors get asked all the time is, “Where do you get your ideas?” This is the rough equivalent of asking a surgeon, “How do you know where to cut?” The answer to each is that it’s a combination of training and experience, study and a little bit of luck. (And, ask [...]
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27 Aug
I released 21 Days to a Novel less than a month ago, and you’ve been buying up copies of it as if I was selling gold.
I suppose, technically, I am. 21 Days to a Novel will help you put together all the material you need to start on that novel you’ve always wanted to write. [...]
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10 Aug
I know it’s taken forever, but I finally finished 21 Days To a Novel. I’d promised to turn it out as a stand-alone book back when I was running that sequence of podcasts in The Secrets, and it’s just taken me a bit longer to get it done than it should have. Something about writing [...]
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18 Jun
First thing: J. C. Hutchins’ 7th Son: Obsidian has posted the episode that I wrote and recorded. It’s titled He Sees In Shadows and is definitely the creepiest piece of fiction I’ve ever written. It’s part of the Obsidian podcast series. If you want some entertaining stories and reads, check it out.
Tonight (June 18th), in [...]
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20 Jun
The Secrets Podcast continues its fourth season. This time around I’m tackling novels and the stuff that takes place while you’re writing one. I’m starting off using Star Wars™ X-wing™ Rogue Squadron™ as my example. It’s a good choice because so many folks have read it, and since it started a series, has all [...]
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05 Jun
The Secrets Podcast has just started its fourth season. This time around I’m tackling novels and the stuff that takes place while you’re writing one. I’m starting off using Star Wars™ X-wing™ Rogue Squadron™ as my example. It’s a good choice because so many folks have read it, and since it started a series, [...]
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22 May
The Secrets Podcasts are the audio companion to The Secrets newsletter. The Secrets is a serious tool for writers. It addresses problems writers have and provides solutions as well as inspiration. Though the podcasts only cover a fraction of the material available in the print version of The Secrets, they cover issues critical to writers [...]
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