I don’t know, I just felt like posting some entertaining memes about writing that I found.
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What Writing Tips Have Not Worked For You?
I keep a list of writing tips for myself that I look at every once in a while. It started as an outline of Stephen King’s On Writing, but expanded from there as I learned more and more about the craft. Write what you know Well, if we only wrote what we know, there’d be very few stories. And very boring stories. There’d be no science fiction or fantasy. No dwarves, no superheroes, no space aliens, no slasher killers. How dull. Not to mention if you only write what you know, you’re not writing for an audience. And that’s another piece of advice that’s terrible — “write for yourself”, “write…
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Some YouTube Videos Worthy of Getting My Like
The first video I ever liked (apparently) was Hannah Hart’s Pizza video from… let me check… ELEVEN YEARS AGO? We were all just babies back then. That’s like… 1997? I’m not sure why–I recall liking “Tacos” and “Grilled Cheese” better (“butter yo shit”). I bet I was drunk at the time. When I rewatched this, I realized Hannah Hart reminds me of my daughter, and I have no problem with that. I was in this anthology and the editor put together a book trailer for it. I love book trailers. Actually I love trailers in general. So if you like names, find mine at 2:09. This was just just a…
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Commissions: The Write-Up
A year ago I wrote about three of my pie-in-the-sky hopes for writer jobs I would like to do. Well, I sorta achieved one of my dreams–I started a commission gig specializing in weird erotica. Don’t bother looking for me. I’m under a false name, one that I use for… ahem… “alternative” self-published stories. If I ever become a famous writer I don’t want to have my reputation ruined by stuff I wrote for money. It’d be like if someone found out J.K. Rowling was writing crime drama under a pseudonym. I got the idea after I came upon an article about how to make quick money. There were the…
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The Key to Any Fantasy Story
As I like fantasy, it’s very hard to make the kind that entertains me. Maybe that’s why I write atypical fantasy characters or plots, such as a coming-of-age adventure for a naga or a domestic drama involving female dwarf sisters. They’re not doorstoppers involving grand sweeping epic world wars and cosmic evils (and thus unpublishable). I love fantasy but I do not have a long attention span. I read fast and my memory isn’t great. All the names of people, places, and things are in some foreign tongue, so I can’t recall whether Niffenbukugard was that innkeeper, the capital city, or some magic spell. There’s more fantasy media than ever…
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Trying to Start the Next One
Well, here I am again, hiding from my novel. I’m ready to start my next one, I guess, but I’m… not ready. Today I didn’t really write. Just checked my e-mail, dinked around on Reddit, copied a few tips about writing the opening scene. You couldn’t even call it phoning it in. I wasn’t anywhere near the phone. It’s a lot of commitment to make a novel. It takes about 3-4 months to make one (~1,000 words a day for 90,000 words = 90 days – weekends and days off and bad writing days and so on). Is this one going to work? Or is it going to be another…
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Bad Writer — A Writing Video Game
Sorry, I just saw this and I had to share. It combines two of my favorite things–writing and video games. And I’m sure it’s going to be just as exciting. Looks like some kind of Stardew Valley mod, but I’m sure it’s as riveting as writing a real novel. This is the equivalent of my Animal Crossing — Chore Simulator 2000 (and I mean that in a nice way).
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The Books I Read: January – February 2022
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard This is a short collection of beautifully written essays that don’t seem to have a point. Only about a quarter of this book is really about “writing life”. That section is nothing you haven’t heard before. It’s getting your ass in the chair and writing and looking around. Nothing about the publicity tours, the writer’s block, the interactions with an editor, with fans, the relationship changes with a family (i.e. what to say during gatherings where you just want people to buy it) The rest is about… something else. I guess it’s the things you think about when you should be writing but you’re…
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Stars
When you want to be a writer, you declare that you want to be one of the stars in the sky. The sky already has trillions of stars. There is no reason for there to be anymore. People look at those trillions of light points and cannot comprehend them. The chances that any person will even focus on one, let alone yours, for even a second, are infinitesimal. But on the chance that you are that one someone notices, the one that someone makes a wish upon, there is no better feeling in the world. And for that moment you are the only star in the sky.
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The Books I Read: November – December 2021
Truth of the Divine (Noumena #2) by Lindsay Ellis This is the second book by Lindsay Ellis, famed (now ex-)YouTube video essayist, which continues the story of Cora–a young woman who made first contact with a set of very uncommunicative aliens. One in particular (Ampersand) and she have some kind of bond that’s hard to explain but is essentially love-based-on-shared-traumatic experience. Well, in the second one, the aliens are just as uncommunicative to the point of maddening. Don’t get me wrong, the beginning is strong. Cora is experiencing some severe PTSD from the first book, having A) failed to save a baby alien B) gone through this horrific adventure of…
