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Writer Advice: Why Your First Draft Will Never Be Your Last Draft

Posted on July 19, 2022July 23, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Writer Advice: Why Your First Draft Will Never Be Your Last Draft

I cracked forty percent on this draft of ‘Mike Sierra Echo,’ my space elevator adventure novel. Will it be the last draft? No idea; that’s what feedback is about. I’d love to think that this draft is the last draft, but let Uncle Jackson share some Writer Advice with you: Your First Draft Will Never…

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Inkican’s First Audio Book is Here!

Posted on July 15, 2022July 18, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Inkican’s First Audio Book is Here!

Huzzah – Inkican’s first audio book is here! After months of paperwork, editing, producing – thrilled to say my first audiobook is live on Findaway voices and other fine places. Read below for a free copy! Table for One – Jimmy G is another average escapee from the post-apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the…

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Jar Jar Binks Turned Me Into A Writer

Posted on July 14, 2022July 19, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Jar Jar Binks Turned Me Into A Writer

Would you like to hear the story of how Jar Jar Binks turned me into a writer? It’s true! It’s fair to say that the Thrawn Series by Timothy Zahn and the awful Star Wars movies that followed are the reason I decided I must / should write. Call it fate, call it artistic envy,…

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Patton Oswalt’s Masterclass on Positivity and Creativity

Posted on July 12, 2022July 18, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Patton Oswalt’s Masterclass on Positivity and Creativity

You know Patton Oswalt, even if you don’t know you know him. From ‘King of Queens’ to the voice of Remy in ‘Ratatouille’ to the exec producer of ‘I’ll be Gone in the Dark,’ Oswalt has enjoyed a robust, fulfilling creative career spanning four decades. And yet, for all his success Oswalt is very open…

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Hard Facts About Marketing Your Work – Authors, Filmmakers, Creatives

Posted on July 5, 2022July 18, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Hard Facts About Marketing Your Work – Authors, Filmmakers, Creatives

It’s time for some hard facts about marketing your work that applies to authors, filmmakers, and creatives. Contrary to popular myth – and it is a myth – books don’t market themselves, films don’t sell themselves. We don’t live in a world where you just ‘write the best book you can and let readers find…

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Back to Drawing Board With My Scifi Novel

Posted on June 13, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Back to Drawing Board With My Scifi Novel

Grab a hot drink and settle in – it’s time to talk about why I’m going back to the drawing board with my scifi novel. It’s taken me a few days to get enough emotional distance to talk about this objectively. I killed Cinderellavator as my next novel project so I could let it be…

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Scifi Writing: Intelligence vs Sentience

Posted on June 2, 2022July 18, 2022 By Jackson Allen

Hi folks – working through some deep-level author stuff which I’ll talk about in a few. Right now I want to pass along some cool scifi writing ideas in the form of a question: What is intelligence vs sentience? Redditor zeFrogLeaps answers this for us below. Let’s read their brilliant comment and then discuss what…

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Get Your Scifi Short Story Published

Posted on May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Get Your Scifi Short Story Published

As a science fiction writer, sometimes you’ll finish something and go: “What Magazines Should I Submit To?” I combed through the Submission Grinder website to find this list of SFWA-recognized short story publishers. I hope you find them useful. Galaxy’s Edge / Lightspeed / Uncanny / Nature: Futures / Escape Pod / Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)  / Daily Science Fiction / Clarkesworld / Cast of Wonders / Asimov’s Science Fiction / Apex Magazine / Analog Science…

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Scifi to Build Our Future Together – Part II

Posted on April 13, 2022April 14, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Scifi to Build Our Future Together – Part II

Click Here to Read Part I – As I said in the previous post, science fiction isn’t just a genre, it isn’t just a community, or a hobby. It’s a tool, it’s a weapon in the war against our dystopian reality. We can weaponize this power to slay these monstrous problems, and it’s why I…

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Scifi to Build Our Future Together

Posted on April 7, 2022April 14, 2022 By Jackson Allen
Scifi to Build Our Future Together

Oh man, somebody pull the civilization fire alarm. Call the police, call the government, call somebody. Look at what our world has become – do you remember that mass shooting in Sacramento on Sunday? Did you hear Noam Chomsky say ‘We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history?‘ Did you see the UN warning…

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My name is Jackson Allen. My intention is to be a self-sufficient science fiction author. I spend my time actively writing, querying, submitting neo-Golden Age scifi and I analyze future trends, asking: "how can new tech and innovation help kids feel excited about the future?" Lots of self-published shorts - actively querying for a formal, mainstream publication house.

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