I’ll be the first to admit, I like the wording more than the picturing when it comes to putting a book together. I use the words to make the pictures on the brain (although tonight, I’m apparently In A Mood [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Make A Career Of It
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: You Know Where You’re Going, Right?
Every book I write is a journey. I climb into the car with these characters and I have some idea of the trip in mind. Sometimes that idea is our destination, sometimes it’s a time during the trip when we’re [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Are You My Reader?
Are you my reader? Do you like to read the books I write? Maybe you’re fond of the same small-town or cozy urban settings as I like to set my stories. Out maybe you’re a fan of the kinds of [...]
Worldbuilding Wednesday: TV Tricks
I don’t have cable or satellite (weird, I know, but guess who hasn’t seen a political ad ALL YEAR), so when I get into a TV show, it is usually a few years old, and available by the season on [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: The Long Game
Ever wonder why most of the truly famous writers are dead? It’s because writing is a long game. Not only a long game, but sometimes a very long game. Long enough so that the language itself changes before your popularity [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Making The Most Of It
I’m currently enjoying a vacation of Endless Summer Fun (TM) with the ol’ family. And all that implies. In the course of cramming a summer’s worth of activities in just a handful of days, I think a lot about making [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Who Built It?
Yeah, I’m capitalizing a little over the political kerfluffle, because hey, I like a policy fight as much as the next guy, but that one’s right on the level of an internet message board fap-fight over spelling and LOLcats. But [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Populating Your World
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? If an ebook hits a virtual shelf and no one knows about it, is the story told?
I know that most [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Building Blocks
Anybody who’s ever been around a baby knows that blocks are the most fun toys ever to have been gnawed on, no matter if said gnawing is done in a mud hut or a marble palace. Blocks are the cool [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Baggage Claim
We all have baggage. Monday, I talked about packing only what you need, even if you have tons more stuff. The same goes for characters.
As authors, we are lucky to be able to create characters whole cloth. Our characters will [...]
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