How Do You Choose Your Author Identity? More than 10 years in, I still struggle with this. The author(s) and a couple of his books. In 2011, I was invited to submit and publish my first-ever piece. It was a short story about magic and pirates called A Treacherous Stone. You can read it in the Rum and Runestones Anthology. A year later, I was invited to create a second pirate and magic story for
Scammers are Devious Who doesn’t want to succeed and get rich quick? Photo by Hartono Creative Studio on Unsplash Not a day goes by that I don’t get an email scam sent to me. They appear innocent enough. Most are offers to assist me with marketing my books in one way or another. Get featured in our book club. Let me make your books viral on TikTok. I can help you make your website draw
Why “Write What You Know” Shouldn’t Be Taken Too Literally It’s not necessarily bad advice, but it’s often misunderstood. Photo by Camille Stelly on Unsplash I’ve come across the phrase “write what you know” many, many times since grade school. It’s a phrase often attributed (maybe correctly, maybe incorrectly) to Mark Twain. It’s also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted pieces of advice writers receive. The main problem is that lots of people take
Sometimes There Is No Deeper Meaning What you write isn’t always deep or loaded with hidden meaning. Photo by Keller Chewning on Unsplash I’ve been slowly reading my way through Chuck Wendig’s Gentle Writing Advice. It’s a clever and funny nonfiction work he put out to help writers write. I met Chuck Wendig at a small conference for writers I attended maybe a decade ago. We were introduced online, before that, by a mutual friend.
Writing What Moves You Vs Writing To The Market Spoiler alert: The Market is a fickle place. Photo by Firmbee.com on Unsplash My first love as a writer has always been science fiction and fantasy. As a kid, the first stories I wrote were sci-fi (a 50-page, illustrated book at age 9, a typed, 36-page book at age 12 or 13). The first full-length novel I completed was high fantasy. Over the years, I’ve dabbled
Writing A Sci-Fi Future Dystopian hellscapes vs utopian paradises and everything in-between. Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash Science fiction can be many things. While there are a lot of sub-genres of sci-fi, one of the predominant aspects is a form of predicting the future. Sci-fi presumes that the human race will still be present in future decades, centuries, or even millennia from now. Science fiction has offered ideas that have become reality. Reading this
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