Notes and Lessons Learned on the Business of Writing
I don’t want to be famous, and this week is one reason why: providing famous-person ‘hot takes’ is a zero-sum game. Here’s a brief re-cap of the hot messes and the hot messes who love them. Scott Adams made an idiot of himself after posting a racist ‘hot take’ rant about a racism poll. Subsequently…
Good news, writer friends – I did some experiments with ChatGTP and the results are more proof that AI isn’t about to replace writers. Some have suggested that ChatGTP is really great at generating news copy and perhaps that’s true. I wanted to see how well it would do for writing creatively, so I decided…
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I’m pleased to announce that World War Four is now available on your favorite e-book platform. It’s a simple comic-tragedy with a contemporary punchline. Here’s the description for World War Four: Red alarms blind the last human on Earth. Joe, NASA’s Long Sleep subject, stumbles from his cryo-pod on atrophied leg muscles. Pods prohibit clothing…
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Passing these pictures along as a behind the scenes look at Superhero Shrink. Jeremiah Jones is an AMAZING voice talent – here he is at work, making Superhero Shrink live and breathe: What makes a voice actor so important? According to Backstage, “personality type is also key for the voice actor. Aside from the dedication…
Continuing from Part I – Everyone knows that writing best-sellers is hard – the case study of Dan Brown reminds us of the opportunity to learn what we can from others’ success. Does that mean we like Dan Brown? Of course not. Jerry Seinfeld found George Costanza to be foolish, Jerry still appreciated George’s talents…
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If you’re in the writing game you know: Writing Best-Sellers is Hard. Let’s use Dan Brown as a case study to understand how he wrote the right book at the right time to be supported by the right people and see what we can learn from his experience. Let’s be clear – I hate Dan…
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Well friends, I haven’t talked about Kevin Conroy but you know my feelings on Batman: The Animated Series. What’s the best way to say ‘thank you’ to a guy you never met for a childhood you never had? I don’t know the answer to that, so I purposefully held off on talking about Kevin Conroy….
Remember when I said ‘we must be connected?‘ It turns out, Carl Sagan agrees with me – we are all connected – you can hear him say so in this new Symphony of Science video. Take a look: Now, if you’re wondering if the artist behind this video is the same guy who did the…
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One of the questions I’m anticipating with Mike.Sierra.Echo is “Why does Mike go to New Mexico?” After all, I live in Eugene, on the West Coast. My last book took place in San Francisco – a traditionally futuristic scifi locale – what’s the deal with putting the characters in Santa Fe? New Mexico has a…
I don’t know about you but my life has been filled with ‘writing rules’ – turns out that there are no wrong answers when it comes to writing dialogue. Want to know why? Check out this Redditor’s explanation as to why there is no good way to follow “the rules” for writing dialogue: “The problem,” he…
