One advantage of setting a story in a real town is that it becomes a selling point, particularly for residents of that town.
On the downside you can be restricted by the actual geography and history and readers will want you to get the details correct.
Editing a novel and I just realized that I have two characters with the same first name.
Argh.
#writingcommunity #amwriting
Great speech by Brandon Sanderson on AI and LLMs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3u...
Cassi is back!
Lost Command, Book III in the Alliance Expeditionary Fleet series is out today!
wp.me/patXpa-1fL
There are a lot of impressive things artificial intelligence can do. Replacing the human experience is not one of them.
Quiet reflection.
Writing cons can feel like drinking from a firehose. A lot of information comes in, and there's so much to get excited about.
I find that it helps to take time to digest it all, mull it over and then figure out how to incorporate what I've leaned into my writing.
#pretendpanel
For a long time I was a storyteller.
But I've worked and worked to refine my craft.
Now I'm more of a story...shower.
#writingcommunity
I just learned that the narrator in the Wonder Years, the voice of "adult Kevin," was Daniel Stern.
Yep... MARV from Home Alone!
That's the biggest mind blowing voiceover factoid since I leaned that Knight Rider's KITT was voiced by Mr. Feeny (Boy Meets World's William Daniels).
Why Most Stories Go Unfinished…
If you're like most writers, you find it so much easier to start a story than to finish it. Sometimes you get ten thousand words in. Sometimes you only get a page or so. Then story trails off and hangs in an odd ethereal limbo. You might come back to it, or it might…
As a Science Fiction writer, sometimes it feels like I can't even keep up to the state of the world...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1t...
Blooper Reel!
This year for April Fools I'm posting a collection of little scene screwups swept up off the cutting room floor.
wp.me/satXpa-outta...
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Outtakes
This year for April Fools, I'm posting a few outtakes from my Cassi Requin novels! These scenes were written in early drafts of my novels First Command, and Fractured Command. And as a special bonus, I'm including an outtake from the new novel Lost Command (coming soon). Each brief scene…
#rip George Foreman. Thanks for everything but especially this youtu.be/m_HR_o0jDqw?...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhiK...
First Command features a grassy land anemone that entangles its prey with fine grass-like tentacles.
www.amazon.com/dp/B096BFLHB3
It's an editing day for me.
Then if there's time, I might punch out some new lines.
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- M. Curie
#AskAnAuthor Day 25
At today's author's panel at Analog Books, Copper, one of the bookstore cats, made himself at home in my author book box!
I wrote this for me, and also maybe for you? I hope it helps: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/feel...
🤬 A curse can relieve tension or express annoyance.
🤬 But does it belong in your writing?
kathysteinemann.com/Musings/curs...
#Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
An interesting take on why fantasy writing is the "ultimate" creative hobby...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8R2...
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I try to plot.
I really do.
I have files full of brainstormed ideas, beat sheets, plot skeletons, character sketches, and various other structure templates.
But the moment I start writing, the work takes on a life of its own. For the most part, I'm just hanging on and screaming "aahh!"
#pretendpanel
