lonemagpie

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/stephen-kings-top-20-rules-for-writers.html

Correct, albeit very much concentrating on fiction writing (it's hard not to watch TV while writing when you're writing a book about the TV show you're watching, for example!) - and an "aww" for number 11.

http://massimomarinoauthor.com/guide-dirty-hairy-knuckled-sci-fi-writers/

Bear in mind that not all of these are necessarily warnings, negatives, or things to avoid at all costs. It just helps to know what’s in the toolbox and why.

Belated due to a change of artist, this finally comes out this week.

I'm not sure if they reissued #1 as a lead in, but there'll be a trade edition after #4 comes out, no doubt.

Of the comics I wrote, this miniseries adaptation is the one I'm happiest and most proud of.

The marketing chimps have decided that the book I'm finishing off for Osprey right now will be called...



"Fortune And Glory," kid, "Fortune And Glory."

(and not X Marks The Spot)

That day when you see that the story you always wanted to do, which a publisher was positive about, but they then sat on for fucking ever, has now been done by some other cunt for a *different* publisher, from whom you're blacklisted, and which is trumpeted with a tagline that guarantees that you can never fucking do your story now even if it's would-be publisher ever gets their arse in gear, because everybody will assume you're ripping off the cunts who've now done it.

*Again*!

A new We Will Destroy Your Planet review here- http://sfcrowsnest.org.uk/we-will-destroy-your-planet-by-david-mcintee-book-review/

FWIW, I've asked if we can upload the factual correction to the ebook, so we'll see what comes of that. As for the rest, well, that's a word count for you- somebody's favourite will always have to sit out!

In the course of valuable research for this nonfiction book, I have been practising with the bullwhip - (what do you mean you’re not surprised I have a bullwhip?) - to determine what Indiana Jones could and couldn’t realistically do with it.

You’d be surprised which bits are Myth confirmed, and which are Myth busted (without the magic of editing, anyway).

Obviously this required a volunteer to hold a weapon to be disarmed, to be pulled by it, but luckily my wife is happy to suffer for my art…

No, not boiled fish and carrots - that was World War One.

Well, what could be more appropriate background on the TV while writing about Nazi gold than this?



Also, it's one of my favourite movies and I never get bored of it.

So, today I'm writing a nonfiction chapter about pirate treasure, focusing on Captain Kidd, and this music is cool accompaniment. Actually the whole soundtracks for all four movies, TBH...

One thing I've found since Lesley got the writing bug and really started pounding on the laptop in the same room - I cannot fucking work while someone else is typing in the same room. I dunno if it's a misophonia thing, or just some other neurological fuckery related to fact that the sound doesn't match the keystrokes I'm making, but I just cannot fucking concentrate on writing stuff when she's typing.

I can do anything else - play games, cook, build models, whatever. I can even make scattered posts online. But properly focus and concentrate on actual meaningful writing? No. The discontinuity and cognitive dissonance is just...

Any other writers get this, or is it just me?