What did you blog about today?

[ratsy]

Great blog Juliana, and well done Jo and Hex

I find myself using places I've visited to write all the time. I mean, I have 2 stories set in New York published and one on the way this year. Sometimes you get a setting in your mind, and you can really use it to create something around the existing space. I guess the one thing I have to try to do is have enough detail, because its so engrained in my head, I almost think everyone should already know what it looks like, or smells like, which is far different than a made up place.

For something like Sleepy Grove, I've went to a cemetery and walked around to get a feel for the setting. Doing that can also pull a lot of setting into your fictional place

 

[Juliana]

its so engrained in my head, I almost think everyone should already know what it looks like, or smells like

I have that problem, too!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

An excellent interview Juliana, Jo, and Hex!

Today I have a fabulous guest post by Steven Poore (aka chopper) on worldbuilding and his upcoming novel The Heir of the North.

 

[Juliana]

Lovely post, Teresa and Chopper!

 

[chopper]

glad you enjoyed it - i put the capital letters in especially for you all! and many thanks to Teresa for hosting!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nice one!

The incredibly energetic @Alex Davis continues his blog run with this excerpt on my blog today. He's done a guest blog every day in July - cheer him on the last furlong!

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/alex-daviss-amazing-blog-hop.html

 

[Jo Zebedee]

And this is mine on his blog - where I muse on horror in grimdark and hope I haven't offended anyone by questioning it.

http://alexblogsabout.com/the-blog/

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

Go read mine,Jo.Might be another one on the way

 

[chopper]

i'm getting around a bit - today i'm over with fellow Grimmie and editor Joanne Hall, talking about accidentally organising events...

 

[millymollymo]

A blog inspired by a Witch's Cat.
Anyone else remember Story Teller? http://www.millymollymo.com/story-teller/

 

[Juliana]

Very sweet, @millymollymo. And @chopper's account was hilarious. The perils of barcon.

There's a really, really random bit of silliness up on my blog today, just because it can't all be serious all the time, can it?
http://jspinkmills.com/2015/08/03/ultimate-mage-battle-urban-fantasy/

 

[thaddeus6th]

A blog about how to self-publish:
http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/how-to-self-publish.html

It's the first in a four part series on self/hybrid publishing [going down both traditional and self-publishing routes]. The others, written by Mouse, Jo and Teresa, will be released later in August.

 

[Juliana]

That was interesting, Thad! Looking forward to the next installments.

 

[ratsy]

I did a little blog on reading, and my history with it http://nathanhystad.ticketyboopress.co.uk/i-love-reading/

 

[Juliana]

Nice, Ratsy!

I did a little post-vacation piece on why in life and writing we sometimes need to take a step back in order to move forwards:
http://jspinkmills.com/2015/08/07/one-step-forward-one-step-back/

 

[KyleAW]

I just put up a random 600ish word short story/prologue/who knows!?

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Last of a week of photos of inspirational books: random ones…

Will write about Erich Fromm's The Sane Society soon.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

The fab PP Corcoran hosted a guest blog for me where I talked about some of the perils of using Belfast as a setting.

https://plus.google.com/+PPCorcoranAuthor/posts/T3ZXPG7QuxJ

 

[DPWright]

My blog today was about a question I was asked on twitter - awoke some memories of why I have wanted to write from an early age - here's the link to 'The Light as a Descriptive Force' https://dpwrightauthor.wordpress.com/ Hope everyone is having a great Book Lover's Day

 

[millymollymo]

Eh... still recovering from Nine Worlds. Still. And I didn't do half of the things.
http://www.millymollymo.com/a-knapsack-full-of-nine-worlds/