A book I recently read and truly loved is Dreamsons by GRRM Martin. Ok it's two books. Ok it's a collection of short form fiction from him. With essays from him recounting bits of his life and essentially telling the story of how is career and craft developed over the years. Honestly a must read.
You are what you eat, and you write what you read
It's on my tbr too!
You had me at Sam&Max
coming too! and signed up to sell my book at the British fantasy society's table :) just need to make sure I get all the admin done by then!
A famous italian tv personality once said, in like 2003, “let’s talk to the owner of the internet, perhaps it’s best to shut it down”. Ahead of his time, truly.
Two piles of books and comic books, too many to name individually
Back from the annual month and a half back in Italy, finally bringing some old books home. Plus a couple new ones.
how fast can I write this novella I want to work on next? well, let's just say it has to happen before Mewgenics is released for Switch...
funny, I have a cat sized dog companion instead :D
if I told someone that I am writing the script for a movie but I don't watch movies, I just read books instead, they would think I am mad. Somehow many think they can write a book without reading books, which always baffled me. The same story in different mediums is executed very differently.
I checked the movie plot on wikipedia and my comment on the similarities between it and the short story is what the hell?
the short story it's (allegedly) based on is fantastic though
Last edits, he said back then… (I am fairly close now though)
If I remember right he has already done that, now he is looking at efficiency gains.
Picture of my dog Kevin in the snow. He is a pomeranian mix with white and tan hair, and two big brown eyes.
Picture of my dog Kevin wearing a bow tie. He is a pomeranian mix with white and tan hair, and two big brown eyes.
This is Kevin, he somehow made it into my novel.
An example of futurist writing by Marinetti. Words are placed at odd angles and capitalizes oddly. Hard to describe briefly.
Another example of futurist writing by Marinetti. Words are placed at odd angles and capitalizes oddly. Hard to describe briefly.
Despite their association with a horrible regime, you have to appreciate futurists for doing their thing unapologetically. We should all have the courage to write what we feel should exist in the world.
I would still advise a certain amount of selectiveness on which projects to pick (e.g. genres you read/understand, some level of competency), however it truly is something every aspiring writer should do. On the plus side, you may meet great critique partners this way, I sure did.
An underrated way to improve your craft as a writer is to beta read for other writers, especially ones that are starting out. Reading a promising but flawed draft of a stranger's novel can help you realise mistakes you are making yourself, but are blind to in your own writing.
I definitely agree that depending on the contents of the book going off the usual path can be very worth it. There are plenty of examples too.
I did some pretty unique formatting for my d&d modules I published a while back, which was pretty well received. For a novel like this one however I think a clean design that makes the physical book “disappear” and the reader immerse themselves into the world is the best option.
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You should start a "Best Compliments" string.
Mine was (of a short story) "You know exactly where it's going, but he takes you there with style."
A friend of mine finished my WIP and gave me the best compliment I could get on what after all is only my first novel: "at a certain point I stopped reading YOUR book and started reading A book."
Picture of the book “Dellamorte Dellamore”, a novel by Tiziano Sclavi that inspired the Dylan Dog comic book.
I’ve been hunting this down for some time at a reasonable price, happy to have gotten it now!
ah there you go, I grew up calling them krapfen because I am from northern Italy. We usually have custard in them, or at least either custard or jam.
They are incredible, also called krapfen in Germany/Austria. Deep fried sugary goodness.
I am (technically) a Tolkien scholar, folks
A bachelor dissertation on worldbuilding in the works of Tolkien. For the university of Trento, academic year 05/06. Philosophy degree.
Throwback to when I convinced two (2) university professors to let me write a bachelor dissertation on world building in Tolkien. Turns out I can talk my way into lots of stuff.
I am starting to be afraid it may actually be "we will work you to death, and your corpse after that". Was reading a short story by Martin recently that had something like that and my first thought was that there are people in the world that would not see an issue with that, and they own everything
Having multiple beta readers going through my manuscript in waves, and revising accordingly. Also doing beta reading myself and thinking critically about a WIP that wasn't mine. I have been somewhat picky on what manuscripts to take on though (they had to show potential).
