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Monday Motivation #6 (Charles Bukowski)
“If you are going to try, go all the way.” The weekend has come and gone, and now it’s time to dive into another week of work, right? Wrong, bucko! The weekend does not mean workend. On the contrary, if anything, it means “time to double down and work even harder“. Whatever it is you want…
Read MoreWhat I Wish I’d Known Then…
What I Wish I’d Known Then… I wish I’d known then just how hard it was going to be. Lord knows how many people were screaming from the mountaintop, “The road is paved in treachery. Beware!” Somehow their words fell on deaf ears. I wish I’d known then just how powerful my desire for distraction…
Read MoreLaunching Your Indie Publishing Career in 5 (not always so) Simple Steps
Launching Your Indie Publishing Career in 5 Steps I’ve been in the Indie publishing game for nearly five years now and I’ve consumed a vast amount of information on the topic. There are very few books, podcasts, interviews, and/or blog posts on the topic of indie publishing as a craft, industry, and way of life…
Read More[Interview] J.S. Collyer on The Orbit series, The Waste, and Character Relationships
J. S. Collyer is Science Fiction writer from Lancaster, UK. Her first novel, Book 1 in the Orbit Series, Zero, an action-packed, character-driven SciFi novel described as ‘Firefly meets James Bond’ was released by Dagda Publishing in 2014 and made it into Northern Soul Magazine’s Best Reads of 2014. The sequel, Haven, was released October 2015 and the third and final instalment, Silence, was…
Read MoreThe Kick-Ass Writer [Book Review]
Chuck Wendig is a septic-dumpster fire I absolutely can’t get enough of. If you’ve spent any time wandering the One Lazy Robot halls, you’ll know by now that I have a bit of a writer crush on the bearded cantaloupe. I’ve followed his career for the better part of five years now, which has been…
Read MoreMonday Motivation #5 (Jim Carrey)
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible to the world.” Welcome back for another dose of Monday Motivation! We’re gonna kick-start the week with some words from a man known more for being funny than poignant, but there are a couple nuggets in here I think we could all use a reminder on occasion.…
Read MoreThe Fascination Test
Fascination I have a degree in Psychology, and tend to look at the personality tests floating around the internet as nothing more than a scummy film of rancid entertainment. We’ve all seen them trickling down our Facebook news-feed: Which Game of Thrones character are you? Take the personality quiz to find out! Are you an…
Read More6 Tips for Telling a Story That Kills Them with Suspense [Writing Workshop]
You don’t have to be a great writer to tell a great story…but it certainly helps. By great writing here, I’m not talking about your ability to craft elegant sentences, or to convey poignant, other-worldly thoughts. No, I’m talking about what some of the all-time great suspense writers have learned. That is, to tell the…
Read MoreThat time I was on a Canadian radio talk show
Interview with Leslie Roberts of CJAD 800 [box] Listen above to the chat I had with Leslie Roberts about The Power of Decision.[/box] The article I wrote for Medium a couple weeks back (The Power of Decision) caught on in kind of a big way. Thanks in large part to the popularity of that…
Read More[Interview] Michael Patrick Hicks on Mass Hysteria, Finding Writing Time with Kiddos, and Gory Horror!
Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of a number of speculative fiction titles. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 Quarter-Finalist. His most recent work is the horror novel, Mass Hysteria.He has written for the Audiobook Reviewer and Graphic Novel Reporter, in addition to working as a freelance journalist and news photographer.…
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