I’ve heard the question “What other writer would you want to be like?” used as a way to determine where you want to go with your writing career. I’ve decided my answer is Neil Gaiman. Not because he’s rich, or successful, or that he tells a great story. What I like about him is that…
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Think the FBI checks our searches?
It’s a typical problem for writers. You need to do research, but if you use Google how does that affect the A.I. overlord’s view of you? For instance, in the last two days I’ve done searches for plastic explosives, cyanide production and poisoning, and hemp growing and CBD. I’m thinking of writing a story about…
Accept the inevitable
Ok, so first off I missed posting yesterday. With all the travel I didn’t have time to post or to write. I’ve been doing some restructuring today but only a little writing. I also worked on the EPA proposal but had to come to the conclusion that it wasn’t going to get done by Tuesday….
20 Books Vegas comes to an end and I get philosophical
In future posts I’m sure I’ll mention some of the other things I learned during the 20 Books Vegas 2019 conference. However, as the conference closes I want to wane philosophical for a minute. This website (26milesofbooks) is devoted to my three R’s; reading, writing, and running. It was originally created during a fundraiser for…
20 Books Vegas Day #2
This was the second day of the 20 Books conference and I attended sessions on marketing, Military Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy, and Fantasy. The one I’m going to talk about here was the Story Rescue Workshop with John Truby. He gave seven techniques to help save a struggling story. Since I’m working on a NaNoWriMo story…
Lessons from Dean Wesley Smith
For today’s post I’m going to share some of the things I took away from the 20 Books Vegas 2019 conference today. One of the speakers was Dean Wesley Smith, icon of the industry and writer of novels spanning Star Trek, Men in Black, and Spider Man. Out of the eight things he mentioned, several…