John guests on Writing Excuses season 3 episode 19

Here’s the third episode I recorded with the Writing Excuses guys. In the first podcast we talked about putting and not putting ourselves in our writing and making characters who don’t all sound like the author. In the second, we talked about how to not repeat yourself as an author. In this one, I shared some basics

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John guest posts about writing memorable fiction on ReidWrite

Luc Reid is the author of, among other things, Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures.  He is also the lizard king of Codex, which he started and of which I’m so happy to be a member. He’s always starting provocative threads on Codex, making us all think and reexamine the principles of story and the whole writing business. He

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Speculative Fiction, Gateway Drugs, and Literacy

You can read the transcript of my remarks at the American Librarian Association (ALA) conference in Chicago on July 11 below as well as the supporting information. IS SF/Fantasy Key to Teen Literacy? Intro I am so happy to be here. And I’m happy share some good news. David McCollough, the Pulitzer prize winning historian shared this fact

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