Tag: fiction
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Creativity Prompt: Incarcerate
In which I attempt to prompt creativity from a readership of creatives…
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Missing Lemony Snicket?
Have you seen these around town? This campaign combines two of my favorite things: innovative marketing and literature. See, I hate ads unless they’re really really good. My dad used to hang these things up all the time to sell things or to distribute information, but to use one for a bestselling YA series?! Oh…
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Engineers use SciFi writers to revive American Innovation
Hieroglyph is a space for SciFi writers, engineers, scientists, and artists to collaborate on creative, ambitious visions of the near-future. Neal Stephenson noticed a serious void in the optimism of science so he helped create an online collaborative between the people who dream things up and the people who make dreams real. Right now, they’ve…
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The Silver Sickle by Ellie Ann
I’ve meant to share this for some time, but business has been crazy. Also summer. Plus… you know… that whole epic photo-comic thingy… BUT! My sister-by-another-mister Ellie Ann released her FIRST solo novel Monday. She calls it: You’re all a great group of supportive nerds. So here’s the thing: I’m counting on all Literators who…
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Why Preachers MUST Write Good Books
Yesterday, I shared 3 More Tricks Writing Preachers Can Learn from Fiction, which followed Friday’s rant about Why Preachers Write Awful Books. Today, I’m taking a lighter note and sharing one last tip. See I typically take this route on my diagnostics for other writers. I figure if you’re diagnosing a cancer, people want the bad…
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3 More Tricks Writing Preachers Could Learn from Fiction
For newcomers, Friday’s rant was called Why Preachers Write Aweful Books… and what they can learn from fiction. I say “rant” because I refuse to dignify that post with the label “article.” I shouldn’t have been surprised — a rant was inevitable after writing poetry for two months. Oh well… In any case, here’s a…
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Storyssentials: Dialect
“De man ain’t asleep — he’s dead. You hold still — I’ll go en see.” He went, and bent down and looked, and says: “It’s a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He’s ben shot in de back. I reck’n he’s ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face —…
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Noble Beast Transmedia to Publish My Work
Noble Beast Transmedia Publishing Company will publish the digital story Slice of Life around the middle of February. Fans of Kickstarter might notice the name of their up-and-coming transmedia app, Steampunk Holmes. For Slice of Life, a transmedia team was assembled by the fabulous author Ellie Ann: Consisting of the infamous Gary Morgan, comic artist the mellifluous composers Raphael Cutrufello and…