It’s October! Let’s start the weekend off right with another Five Links Friday! 1. Let’s start by checking out this batch of links from Merce Cardus on on Writing, Self-Publishing & Better Living. 2. Here’s an interview with Susannah Rickards at Daily (w)rite discussing all sorts of things, but with a focus on writing a […]
Theme of Absence Halloween Contest
As you may or may not know, in addition to Write Good Books, I’m also the owner and editor of Theme of Absence, an online magazine of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. And if there is one thing I love, it’s horror. Like a lot of horror fans, I have a crazy obsession with all […]
Five Links Friday 8/14/15
And just like that, we’re all another week older. Hope you didn’t waste a minute of the last seven days. Here’s a good doze of writing-related stuff for ya… 1. Everyone is a dreamer. Part of the reason I have this blog is to help me (and you) achieve your writing dreams. HeleneInBetween.com has a […]
One Big Goal to Reach by the End of the Year
I say over and over how important it is to set concrete written goals with a deadline if you want to achieve success. The problem is I don’t always follow my own advice. That’s not entirely true; I do set daily and weekly writing goals, but I often get so caught on up the short-term, […]
Five Links Friday 7/31/15
Hey, it’s Friday! The weekend is here, and so is… Five Links Friday. 1. Check out 4 Key Ways to Ramp Up Tension and Pacing in Your Fiction from C. S. Lakin’s blog. Tension an pacing often go hand in hand, so there’s a lot to learn from this post. 2. Ben Schmitt has a […]
What makes horror work?
My comfort food is horror movies. Of course, I don’t usually eat while I watch them, unless we’ve got a bag of Pop Secret in the pantry, but you get my point. Everybody has something they do to de-stress, and for me, scaring myself silly for 90 minutes seems to do the trick. That love […]
5 Things I Gained From Attending O Comic Con
I think we can all agree on one thing: Nothing beats a good science fiction convention. This weekend, the first annual O Comic Con took place in the Omaha metro area. I turned over the piggy bank, loaded up the kids in the Buick and hit the Interstate. We had a killer time. I went […]
Avoid Using Cookie Cutter Characters
I’ve watched a lot of horror movies in my life, more than I care to count. Call me crazy, but that’s how I relieve stress. My favorites are slashers. Nothing beats watching one of the various masked-men stalking teenagers and taking them out one-by-one. The only problem with slasher films is that sometimes they are […]
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