What did you blog about today?

[Jo Zebedee]

Oh, dear, me again. I've been quiet with work the last couple of weeks, so have been blogging a bit more than usual. Normal frenetic service is resumed in a couple of weeks.

Anyhow, I wrote about character arcs, what they are, why they matter, how they are adapted to the story needs.

JoZebwrites: ON CHARACTERISATION

Plus! It's my 100th post! Whoo-hoo. Party time. I know lots of people here go and visit the blog (I see the referring sites), so thanks so much for that, and for the comments etc here, and on the blog, plus shares/retweets etc. I have gone from an average monthly readership of 10 (my mum, and 9 chronners would be my guess) to just kicking the door of 2000 hits per month. You're all incredible.

 

[thaddeus6th]

I do plan on writing about, er, writing, and also some random and obscure bits of history, in the nearish future, but first some thoughts on the Survival Mode of Fallout 4:
Thaddeus the Sixth: Fallout 4’s Survival Mode

I hope they include something similar in the next Elder Scrolls.

 

[Juliana]

Nice, Jo.
Thad, I know nothing about gaming at all, but my son is obsessed with Fallout 4 (and all the others, too).

Something light and Friday-afternoonish about character naming:
What’s in a Name?

 

[Droflet]

Excellent blogs, Jo and Juliana. Yeah, what's in a name? Plenty. A few people asked me why I name my lead character Nathan Telford. Well, Nathan, short for Nathanial, fits in with his strict religious upbringing. Telford? You'll find out during the final chapter of book two, First Comes Duty. Coming soon to an amazon site near you. (plug ends).

 

[gdoc]

Posted a short story on my site.



The Drone

 

[ratsy]

I did a post about some cool, different 'horror' flicks I've recently watched. Horror Movies with a twist…

 

[Stephen Palmer]

My review of a biology book that I suspect will be seen as ground-breaking in the future. An exceptional work.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Why your marketing might not be helping your book:

JoZebwrites: How not to market

 

[Juliana]

Nice post Jo. Yes, the only person who gets away with incessant 'buy my book' tweets is Sam Sykes. Because it's Sam, and it's his thing, and it's funny.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nice post Jo. Yes, the only person who gets away with incessant 'buy my book' tweets is Sam Sykes. Because it's Sam, and it's his thing, and it's funny.

Yeah, that's different, I think. I mean, I do the odd 'you should buy ten of it' sort of thing, and people knows it's a joke. I'm actually planning a huge cull of my twitter following list as so much of what I see is spam when I could be delivering stinking fishcakes to @firestealer instead.

 

[Juliana]

Yes, Firestealer deserves all the fishcakes.

I don't automatically follow back on Twitter. I take a look at their feed first; if it's all self-promo stuff, I don't follow. Simple. Give me a reason to follow you back, people!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

yes, I vaguely remember Twitter...

 

[thaddeus6th]

Some short tips (mostly common sense, I'd guess) on short stories:
Thaddeus the Sixth: Short Stories, and how to write them

 

[gdoc]

Some short tips (mostly common sense, I'd guess) on short stories:
Thaddeus the Sixth: Short Stories, and how to write them

Good advice. Thanks for posting.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Wow looks like I have a lot of blogging to catch up on when I return home. In Majorca at the moment with the family having a hard earned break! Back in the UK early hours Tuesday.

Here's an interview with the Chrons very own Brian Turner who took some time to answer a few questions which I greatly appreciate. More posts to come from me and Sigfridvonshrink in the coming weeks!

SFFChronicles – Brian Turner interview by SilentRoamer

 

[thaddeus6th]

Np, gdoc.

SilentRoamer, clever of you to have a holiday before we leave the EU and travel becomes impossible

 

[SilentRoamer]

We were always able to holiday before and if we leave I see little change there except maybe a few extra quid! The majority of Majorcans I have spoken to don't want the UK to leave as they see us as a strong part of the EU. Anyways I won't derail the blog thread with referendum talk!

Looking forward.to reading your fallout post and playing some survival mode although I didn't get much chance to play Farcry Primal before i came on holiday so I might be a few weeks on that first. I may buy all the Fallout expansions when I get back from holiday.

 

[Juliana]

Nice interview @SilentRoamer and @Brian Turner!

 

[pambaddeley]

Yes, Firestealer deserves all the fishcakes.

I don't automatically follow back on Twitter. I take a look at their feed first; if it's all self-promo stuff, I don't follow. Simple. Give me a reason to follow you back, people!

May have got this wrong but I thought it was supposed to be old school to follow people back (unless it's someone you know elsewhere of course). So I haven't largely and some of them have now jumped ship. But some were darnright weird/odd and I couldn't work out why they'd be following and a load were for services to sell to writers.

 

[HareBrain]

I don't follow back if they have something like a thousand followers and followees. If they follow 1000 people, they're never going to see your tweets anyway, unless they've put you in a list (which they would only likely do if you know them from somewhere else or are of particular interest to them) so why bother?