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Eliminating the saggy middle

On May 20, 2020 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

Choosing a topic for this month's blog was a difficult choice. During the month I finally managed to see the Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker and commenting on the unbelievable bizarre ending could easily fill at least one blog post on story design. But I don't like to give negative reviews and there are …

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Finding a story from chaos

On April 20, 2020 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

One of the tasks I have been putting off for some time is a limited re-edit of my debut novel, Collision. After its release in 2012, I noticed some irritating typos had crept into the final proof. Well, as you can see it's taken me quite some time to get around to doing it. But …

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AndroDigm Park 2067 – published!

On April 23, 2018April 25, 2018 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

It's a great feeling to publish a new novel -- somewhere between nirvana and just plain relief that it's finally out. AndroDigm Park 2067 is a project I started over two years ago. The title changed from that original title several times, but the story remains the same. So let me explain the strange title. …

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Story pacing

On February 24, 2018 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

One of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. For those that haven't seen this 1982 neo-noir movie, it's set in a 2019 dystopian world where synthetic humans known as replicants are bioengineered by a powerful corporation to work on off world colonies.  Directed by Ridley Scott and loosely based …

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Connecting your story’s hero/heroine

On December 15, 2017December 15, 2017 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

Have you ever read a story or watched a movie that brought a lump to your throat and tears to your eyes? Yes, of course you have. Good stories create an emotional experience for their readers or audience. It's the reason why we like them so much. But how do their writers do it? It's …

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Choosing Genre

On August 25, 2014August 27, 2014 By JohnIn For newbie authors, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Genre is not something I had really thought about until it came to the time for publishing my first novel on Amazon. Then I had to categorise the genre and sub-genre of my novel for Amazon’s classification purposes. Of course, genre is important. It’s one of the first things that influence readers' choice of books. …

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What is science fiction?

On August 10, 2013August 10, 2013 By JohnIn For newbie authorsLeave a comment

Recently, we (the family) were hunting through our DvD/Blu-ray movie collection for one of my favourite sci movies of all time: Blade Runner. Eventually, after going through our collection several times, we found it. But I knew after all the effort of searching that it was time to put our collection into some kind of …

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