Guest Post: Jake Kerr on achieving greatness
Readers have been asking for writing advice, so today I have a guest posting from the amazing Jake Kerr. I’ll put links at the end to his new book on revising. I just finished it, and it’s fantastic....
View ArticleHow dinosaurs can fix your research (with Daniel Bensen)
Here is a conversation with Daniel Bensen on writing, research, and life. When I was in middle school, I stumbled across a website on the then-nascent internet called Hell Creek Faunal Facies. It was...
View ArticleManaging Scrivener projects in the cloud with symlinks
Here’s a small tip that might prove helpful to folks trying out the new Scrivener for iOS. Background: Scrivener now allows syncing between the desktop and Mobile versions. To do this you need a...
View ArticleSecond Lines
Mac Laidlaw now famously quipped that any story could be improved by changing the second line to “And then the murders began.” I thought it would be fun to test that theory with some short stories from...
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Book Marketing
Here’s what’s on my mind (or at least my browser tabs) these days. Book Marketing. This Reddit post recounts how one author quadrupled his sales. I’m mainly putting it here so I can find it later, but...
View ArticleThe Spectre of technological Meltdown
I’d come up with the premise for my latest novel a full year before it (partially) became reality. In my novel, one day in the future all computers just stop working–except for those designed in the...
View ArticleBuy my books
Here is a thing that happened: Someone bought one of my books. Without my immediate knowledge or participation. From an independent bookseller. And later found me and requested an autograph. Milestone...
View ArticleFacebook Has Made Mistakes
After days of deafening silence, Facebook recently apologized for the release of the personal data of tens of millions of users, the majority of which had no idea this was happening. A TOP SEKRIT...
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See LevelUP on FranLab!
I sent the very first printed copy of LevelUP to Fran Blanche, who runs an addictive YouTube channel where she describes, builds, and tears down vintage electronic hardware. Check it out. Today she...
View ArticleNegation of the negation
The Story Grid methodology has proved to be a useful tool to analyze story, and even though I use it almost daily and even went through 15 weeks of training, one particular aspect continues to stir...
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