Quick weekend post to let you know that I’ve updated the Articles For Writers page on the site, and there are now links to a huge (messy) list of Topics Of Interest 🙂 Read more:Inklet Of The Week!Cook With Amy: Potato & Leek SoupApplying Hot Iron: How To Deal With Recalcitrant Characters (A Repost)
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I was asked on Instagram last week how I go about structuring my stories, whether there’s a set way I like to do it, or if it’s different for every story, or what. I promised an answer last week, and that didn’t happen, but hey! It is this week and now I can answer! 😀
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Middles are hard, y’all. For many, many years and many, many stories, I really struggled to know WHAT went in the middle of a story. Like, yeah, okay, it’s supposed to exacerbate the conflict. It’s supposed to complicate things. It’s supposed to get the protag. to the climax and there should be a reversal in
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Unprecedentedly (which seems appropriate for our unprecedented times), WMG Publishing is offering a THIRD half-price sale on all their courses, lectures and memberships this week. This time, the sale is for FIVE days, rather than just two, so you have a little more time to jump in. Go to https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com and use the code SummerLearning2020.
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WMG Publishing is offering 50% off on all their writing lectures and courses for TODAY ONLY. Use the code MarchSadnessSpecial20. This is a one-time thing that I haven’t seen them do ever in the last four years, something that they are doing to try to help give people access to positive things to do and
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Mega-best seller Dean Wesley Smith and also-best seller and games-man extraordinaire Loren L. Coleman have put together an amazing, FREE workshop on how to use Kickstarter effectively to boost your fiction. If you’re a writer, or an aspiring writer out there, I highly recommend this great new course. (Actually I highly recommend a lot of
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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 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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Just a quick final reminder that Holly’s How To Think Sideways course, her comprehensive how-to-write-a-novel-and-make-writing-your-career course, is closing in a little over 2.5 hours until early to mid 2016. See more info plus my recommendations here. And not that it’s much of an incentive, but if you DO sign up through my link, you can
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Just a quick announcement that in about 30 hours, Holly Lisle’s biggest course, How To Think Sideways, will close registration for the rest of the year. She’s been making noises for a while now about moving her big courses to once-a-year-only registration, and that time is here. The cons: You only get a limited time
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