Author: andrewmfriday
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Should I Continue to Read Their Works?
Note: In the rough draft of this posting, I included the names of the authors I speak about. I decided to take out the names. The reader may already know the situation. I changed my mind so as to keep the focus on the question I am asking myself: do I want to continue reading…
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Friday’s Findings 05.11.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Conveying the Senses of Place to Our Readers 9 Ways to Create a Rock-Solid Writing Habit Why Writers Need to Perfect Their First Thirty Pages You’ve Got to Work It Over Plot Points: A Storytelling Exercise View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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Author Interview: Cheryl Lawson
Cheryl Lawson’s debut novel, We Are Mars, is coming out May 15th, 2018. Cheryl lives in Kamloops, BC, Canada, with her husband and son. Cheryl grew up in South Africa, moving to Canada in 2006 when her son was just a year old. They settled in the lower mainland of BC, before moving, in 2017,…
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Prose Is Architecture
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. – Ernest Hemingway
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Epiphanies in Writing, Part 3: Marketing your Novel
Anyone involved in the publishing industry knows it changes daily. I worked at a publishing house in the early nineties and then again in the 2010’s and comparing and contrasting my two stints capsulizes what is happening all over the world: we’re becoming a digitalized culture. No surprise there, but it was fascinating to…
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Friday’s Findings 05.04.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Imagine the Page as You Write Your Book Find Your Way Back to Writing A Tip for Getting Through Hard-to-Write Scenes How to Write a Great First Sentence–With 22 Inspiring Examples. What Is Fantasy, Exactly? View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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Cover Preview for Episode 3
Consortium, Episode 3: WHEREHOW is still in production, but I wanted to give a preview of the cover. In this episode, more is revealed about the dimension called the WhereHow. Also, the mysterious WhereHow dwellers called the Xyce are in full force and attack everyone’s favorite space vacation cruiser The Planned Happenstance. From past episodes,…
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Author Interview: Dennis E. Taylor
I have been listening to Dennis E. Taylor’s humorous science fiction series via Audible. If you enjoy a little sarcasm sprinkled on your action stories, you should check out Taylor’s Bobiverse. Start with We Are Legion. The series is great to listen to while driving around running errands and such. They brighten up otherwise boring…
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How much detail and backstory?
NOTE: I dusted off some notes I took for a webinar, How to Revise Your NaNo Novel, from January 2016. Grant Faulkner hosted the segment on writing advice with guest speakers KM Weiland, James Scott Bell and Kami Garcia. The following were some of the questions asked. How do you balance detail? Too much, too…
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