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Michael D. Turner
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I think my problem with this lies in the term "Historic". 9-11 is history but the figures involved are not yet historical. There is a real difference in my mind to the ethics of using real people who are long dead and gone and using people still i...
Back on the Book line, I think Orson Scott Card's How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy has some useful things in it. Like most writing books it seems to work best if read closely, while taking notes, and then shut up on the shelf with the note...
The reading is a nice place to start, don't forget the age old method of garnering expert advice in person. You would be surprised at how easy this is to do. Although vetting your expert can be difficult, it really isn't that hard to acquire a cir...
Ultimately it is the publishers first and then the judges who are responsible for the Booker prize. The Wiki entry on the prize indicates that each publisher's imprint is allowed two nominations each year. I think the Booker judge has the rights o...
Yeah, whatever normal means.
Myself, I am a terrible and slow typist. Freehand writing is much faster, and if I ever get the kids moved out of the house for some quite I'll get software to dictate my longhand and skip typing it in entirely.
I finally had to start writing the endings first, and then run the rest of the story up into it. When I hit the end now, its all editing. Of course I haven't any deadlines yet, those might actually help.
Yes, I too write long hand first. The typing gives me a chance to do corrections, steer places I may have started to wander back toward topic. It lets me get things down and think about them.
Plus I always have pen and paper handy, my keyboard muc...
GW,
The best work I've ever read in this incorporates real human mythologies into Lovecraft's horrible prehistoric gods. This really isn't very hard to do and grounds the story so much better.
If you want to avoid or at least reduce the dark fant...
It is also so much more enjoyable when the author doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. Why create a scary monster haunting the American north west if Bigfoot would accomplish the same task? Likewise, I've read many a Lovecraft pastiche postulating s...
Very Cool!
Good Show Jason!
Mike
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 10:50am on September 1, 2009,
Jason Irrgang said…
- I never got around to saying hello, sorry about that!
So, belated hello, nice to expand my network of contacts here.
- At 8:36pm on August 22, 2009,
Richard H. Fay said… - Hi, Michael!
I'm glad to see some familiar names here on Wonderlands. Thanks for accepting my friend request.
Cheers!
- At 6:02am on August 3, 2009,
David Lee Summers said…
- Hey Mike, great to see you here at Wonderlands!
- At 9:49pm on August 1, 2009,
Jason M. Waltz said… - Hey, looks just like you, too ;)
- At 9:48pm on August 1, 2009,
Jason M. Waltz said…
- Ta-da! Here you are! Welcome Mike - thanks for hooking up on Wonderlands!
- At 9:30pm on August 1, 2009,
Mark said… - Hello Michael: welcome to Wonderlands!
Mark
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