Failing again. Failing better.
I recently had a post on Brandon Sanderson at SDCC. Since then, I’ve been reading a series of posts about or by fantasy author Joe Abercrombie (blog). So I decided to bring them to everyone’s attention. First, publisher Gollancz has posted a series of articles by Joe Abercrombie on planning, writing, revising, and editing. also,…
Over on thedebutreview.com, they posted an interview with Jeff Salyards (Blog, Twitter), debut author of the highly-regarded SCOURGE OF THE BETRAYER. Go read the ten-question article. It’s full of good stuff for the beginner writer. As a beginner writer, I sympathized with much of what Jeff Salyards said. The laziness, the stretches of little writing…
This site is very quickly approaching its one-year anniversary. And yet I’m still discovering things wrong with it. The most recent was realizing that there has been a HUGE issue with the subscribe option (that box to the right of the text) for the entirety of this site’s existence. Namely, I had never activated the…
Ok, so I misspoke (I didn’t lie–there was no intention there. (Did you know I was a lawyer?)). Here’s another post that is sort of an SDCC-wrap-up. But in all fairness, I have a good reason for the error. You see, I’m a big fan of author Brandon Sanderson (Blog; Twitter; videos of his writing…
Another winner at SDCC was the movie Looper. First, there was a new trailer that was released before SDCC that gives you a great feel for what the movie is about, beyond time travel and gangsters (although that is a big part of it). I like the idea of someone going back in time not…