Over at his official web site, Terry Brooks has released an video of a reading his did for his upcoming novel, The Gypsy Morph. Terry, one of my favourite people to see at a reading, takes a look at Chapter Eight of the upcoming novel. You can read my recent review of The Gypsy Morph HERE.
You can view the video HERE.
The good folk over at Fantasybookspot have an exclusive three-chapter excerpt from Tobias Buckell’s upcoming novel, Sly Mongoose.
I was a huge fan of his first two novels, Crystal Rain (REVIEW) and Ragamuffin (REVIEW), and my sights are set high to Buckell’s third outing. Plus, with such a great cover it’s gotta be good, right?
You can find the excerpt HERE.
David B. Coe, author of The LonTobyn Chronicle and the Winds of the Forelands series, has an interesting post on writing and finding your own pace.
I go about my work differently. I hunker down. I plod along. I use any other metaphor I can think of for writing slowly and steadily. Last week I wrote a total of 9,000 words — thirty-six pages. The week before that I wrote about 8,500 words. The week before that about the same. This week I’ll lose a day to the holiday weekend, but I should wind up with 7,000 words or so. It’s not a lot. But it’s enough to get me a hundred and twenty to a hundred and thirty manuscript pages a month. And that means that I can write my 140,000 word novel in less than half a year.
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Writing a book is a huge undertaking. It’s hard enough to get to the finish line while meeting your goals and sticking to a schedule. But if you begin and end every day of writing feeling that you’re hopelessly behind, that you’re failing to do what you set out to do, that daunting task can become impossible. Be good to yourself. Enjoy the work. Find your pace, accept it as your own, embrace it. And then stick to it. You might not get the book done as quickly as you’d like, or as quickly as some pros do, but you’ll get it done. And really, that’s the most important thing.
It’s short and to the point, but certainly worth taking a look at for everyone out there who, like me, are aspiring writers. The whole thing can be found HERE.
My first edition of I Ask You went over better than I had anticipated, with a lot of great input from my readers. That one was focused around interviews and it’s had a direct impact on how I approach my interviews.
To that end, I thought it was about time for another edition. This time I wanted to tackle a subject that has seen a fair bit of discussion over the past several weeks around the ‘net: Reviews.
What makes for a good, interesting review?
Some things to think about: How much plot synopsis do you like? Do you like in depth literary reviews full of quotations, passages from the novel, solid examples? Or more off the cuff reviews? Who are some of your favourite reviewers? Whose reviews do you not enjoy a whole lot?
As many of you have probably noticed, I’ve been fooling around with adding a Twitter badge to the front page of A Dribble of Ink.
What is Twitter, you ask?
Well, Twitter’s like a blog after seventeen double shot espressos. Meant for small, quick and numerous updates, Twitter allows people to keep in touch with friends – what they’re doing/thinking/wanting/hating/asking/etc…. – the guys on Penny Arcade put together a hilarious comic about it HERE.
More than just a personal too for friends, however, Twitter’s a great way for media outlets, like this blog here, to give their readers a little behind-the-scenes look at what’s going on. Through twitter you’ll be able to find out about upcoming content I’m preparing, tidbits about what I’m up to at the moment, facts about the blog (like Neil Gaiman causes a huge spike in traffic, and more.
You can follow me through the badge at the top of A Dribble of Ink‘s homepage, or you can do it directly through Twitter HERE. You can even subscribe to it through your favourite RSS reader!
Hopefully this brings another fun level of interaction to A Dribble of Ink!
