What did you blog about today?

[Toby Frost]

Random thoughts about a phrase I've never liked.

Words to That Effect: "My Characters Surprise Me"

 

[Jo Zebedee]

On getting my mojo back. And the chapter that worked for me. I owe Lichio a drink.

When the angels do sing

 

[Cathbad]

Random thoughts about a phrase I've never liked.

Words to That Effect: "My Characters Surprise Me"

One of my characters wants to shoot you now.

 

[J-Sun]

After three in thirty days, on this last day of the month I recommended two out of the last three stories I read (one of those being in a review for Tangent) and wrote up the monthly summation. If time is what keeps everything from happening at once, it's not doing its job.

Rec: “Party Discipline” by Cory Doctorow
Review of BCS #233 for Tangent
Summation of Online Fiction: August 2017

 

[thaddeus6th]

Agree on that, Toby. A writer can make snap decisions (I decided as I was writing that a character in Bane of Souls who was heading for a happy-ever-after could just be brutally murdered instead [the story is about a series of murders, so it does fit]), but isn't a slave to a muse whispering in their ear.

Jo, interesting, as I liked Abendau's Heir a lot. Might even be my favourite of the trilogy. Then again, I also like Best Served Cold less than almost all other Joe Abercrombie fans, so maybe my taste is as perverse as a nocturnal rendezvous with Corkwell.

 

[Cli-Fi]

You might have heard that Facebook has TV shows now: Facebook Watch Goes Open Source with Humans of New York & Discovery as Initial Partners – JohnJFalco.com

 

[The Big Peat]

Agree on that, Toby. A writer can make snap decisions (I decided as I was writing that a character in Bane of Souls who was heading for a happy-ever-after could just be brutally murdered instead [the story is about a series of murders, so it does fit]), but isn't a slave to a muse whispering in their ear.

Jo, interesting, as I liked Abendau's Heir a lot. Might even be my favourite of the trilogy. Then again, I also like Best Served Cold less than almost all other Joe Abercrombie fans, so maybe my taste is as perverse as a nocturnal rendezvous with Corkwell.

Are you saying no authors are slaves to the muses whispering in their ear, or no author has to be? The former seems a bit absolutist.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Holiday photos (2nd half).
Back to the 9-5 on Monday >sob< still, it's been a great 7 weeks!

 

[Toby Frost]

Thoughts on the "cynical" approach to writing.

Words to That Effect: Conviction

 

[thaddeus6th]

Oddly busy time for blogging, so here's another, celebrating/forewarning the forthcoming rule of Sir Edric: Thaddeus the Sixth: Sir Edric’s Kingdom – out 22 September

 

[Juliana]

A few mini-reviews of my latest reads...

Have Book, Will Read #15

 

[Mouse]

A few mini-reviews of my latest reads...

Have Book, Will Read #15

My bro was on about Ready Player One the other day and he made it sound pretty good. I am tempted.

 

[thaddeus6th]

First impressions of Pillars of Eternity (PS4): Thaddeus the Sixth: Pillars of Eternity (PS4): First Impressions

 

[Toby Frost]

Preliminary thoughts about comedy as a style of writing.

Words to That Effect: Why Comedy?

 

[Cli-Fi]

*Spoiler* review of The Orville. Don't listen to the critics: The Orville Shines Through the Darkness of Peak TV – JohnJFalco.com



http://johnjfalco.com/the-orville-shines-through-the-darkness-of-peak-tv/

 

[Mouse]

My publisher arranged a blog tour for me for the release of Whitecott Manor so I'm blogging all over the shop. If you scroll down, you'll see the schedule at the bottom. Whitecott Manor by Emma Jane | Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

 

[The Big Peat]

An interview with Anna Stephens about her book Godblind

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Nice interview, @The Big Peat , and really topical too as Anna will be putting in an appearance at FantasyCon in a couple of weeks.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

The perils of being a pantster…

Ah, what fun. 60000 words in and only now does my brain decide to come clean about whodunnit....

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Ah, what fun.

Indeed, and perhaps one of my favourite aspects of pantsing is as you say:

This morning, the angels sang. Even louder than in my last blog. They told me who the bad guy was. And it wasn’t anyone that I’d expected.

When everything does fall into place and the twists aren't necessarily what you were expecting or would have guessed... that's the point where I instantly forget all the worries along the way as to whether everything would all fit into place.
Glad you've got there, Jo