I think I’ve mentioned this in a cagey manner before now, but it’s official and announceable and exciting: I have an article in the current issue of Aurealis! Yes, THAT Aurealis, of the Aurealis Awards, Australia’s answer to the Nebula and Hugos. Like, whoa. The article is about climate and worldbuilding (a la How To […]
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Just mucking around making some advertising graphics this weekend. Bit of fun that will be useful, too 🙂 Except, urgh, I’m going to have to edit that last one because it says ‘this holidays’, which, URGH. But anyway, apart from that they are pretty 🙂 <3 What have you made this week? Don’t forget to
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Just popping by today to note that if any of you out there are writery people, you might want to consider this bundle I found. David Farland was one of the instructors at the Masterclass I attended last week, and he really knows his stuff. It was *fantastic* hearing his insights into working with Hollywood,
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Yo, #FGU! Yep, it’s true: I finally, actually, mostly, probably, truly have tentative release dates for my epic worldbuilding book, From The Ground Up! WOW has this been a long haul. If you know the story, skip the next paragraph, but in case you don’t……. I wrote the proposal for FGU waaaaaay back in 2012
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Some great reading I’ve been doing lately that’s really made me think. Freedom not to choose is a faith worth believing in – discussion of Britain as a state-religion-less society. Not sure I agree 100% (I mean, their anthem is still literally God Save The Queen), but it’s definitely an interesting concept. Welcome to The
Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! There’s also Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4. Whoa, day 5 of plotting! So pretty much all I’m going to do today is provide a quick wrap-up, including an overview of the main points discussed in yesterday’s video. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, besides
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! There’s also Day 2 and Day 3. Today, the climax this has all been building towards. A couple of weeks ago I was super excited to able to visit Liana in Alaska (!!!!), and while I was there, Much Plotting Occurred. We plotted 6 novel/las that week, I
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Missed out on Day 1 of Plotting? Catch up here! Okay, so, yesterday I confessed to you my secret nightmare as a writer: structure. Not because I resent being constrained by arbitrary rules or whatever, but because actually, after reading a crap-tonne of new-writer stories in the last ten years, I have a healthy appreciation
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Being an English teacher is good for my writer ego. I used to think that probably I was just *stupid* for all the beginner mistakes I made – but going on seven years of high school* English teaching where students usually have to complete one creative response per semester, I’ve marked over 1100 creative responses that
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Dialogue punctuation is something I really harp on about to my students, because there are a lot of rules in fiction, and you can break every single one of them if you have a good reason – except dialogue. Yeah, okay, I know there are some big-name authors out there who DO break the rules
