Andrew Update April 2011
Things have been busy around here, between various writing projects, jiu jitsu, day job, film school and earthquake recovery I exist in a kind of strange quantum twilight zone. There are chickens here too. When I’m not running rough shod over the laws of time and space I’m trying to plan my next move so [...]
Undead Is Not An Option
Hi everyone! I’ve kept this a little quiet, but awhile back I wrote a short story called Dead Man’s Shoes to appear in the Zombie Survival Crew‘s anthology Undead Is Not An Option. This morning Undead Is Not An Option opened up for pre-orders (at the introductory price of $10.00), and I’d love it [...]
Will E-Books Save Short Stories?
I’ve long been given the impression that writing short fiction was a mechanically useful, financially futile thing to do. Unless you’re Neil Gaiman or Stephen King the chances of getting more than beer money selling short stories seemed…slim. It was still a good thing to do, nothing like professional credits to make your query [...]
Everybody Just Chill Out For A Second
Listen. Just for a moment. No I’m not published. No I’m not anyone really, but listen anyway. Just because someone is hollering at you to do something does not mean you have to do it. Right now there are people yelling at you for: a) Self publishing b) Not self publishing c) Not writing well [...]
Surviving The Publishing Apocalypse
As an aspiring writer, everywhere you turn there’s someone else proclaiming that the sky is in fact falling, and you’d better self publish yourself some shelter before the old gods return and eat your sweet meats for you. On the other side of the street, wearing nothing but a street sign and a filthy [...]
Dialogue Problems and How To Fix Them 1: All your dialogue sounds the same.
I can just about guarantee you’re going to hear this from a beta reader at some point in your writing career. Not everyone who says it to you will have any idea what they’re talking about, it’s sometimes used as a default statement when they know something is wrong with the dialogue but don’t know [...]
Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel…The Book Trailer
Now this is how you do a book trailer. It gets across the tone and style of the book without hitting viewers with too much information. Love it.
Why Mechanics Matter Part One
No, I don’t mean the hairy bloke who fixes your car, although Gus is important too. I mean the very basics of writing English. Anyone who has read this blog for awhile will know that I’m far from perfect when it comes to this, and it’s something I’m working on. But the [...]
The Loose Cannon with Matt (F’n) Wallace Review
It’s rare you get a chance workshop your stuff with a professional writer. It does happen sometimes of course, but when you’re at the bottom of the world like I am things like Matt Wallace’s Loose Cannon come once in a blue moon. Run through the free video service uStream and running for almost [...]
Overloading and Writers
This is a “don’t be as stupid as I was” post, whereupon I hope you can learn from my mistakes. If I can’t be a good example I’ll settle for being a dire warning. I have a tendency to load myself up with goals and projects, all quite achievable as long as nothing [...]
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