Category Archives: On Writing

By John Brown | February 21, 2011 - 10:14 pm |March 8, 2011 On Writing

The recording of the session with Larry Correia at LTUE is up on YouTube. I really enjoyed this session, and it’s always fun to work with Larry. A few additonal points. First, you might think, well, heck, they didn’t finish a story idea. No, we didn’t. The purpose wasn’t to wow the audience. It was →

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JB Speculates: eBooks, Book Contracts, Agents, and Libraries

By John Brown | February 6, 2011 - 11:48 pm |February 7, 2011 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever, On Writing

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I’ve looked in the crystal ball I hide under my desk and caught a glimpse of what ebooks will change in the next few years. Specifically I saw what will happen to: Book Contracts Literary Agents eBook Aggregators and Libraries After showing me the vision, the ball thanked me for shopping at Walmart. Weird. PRINT ONLY CONTRACTS The only reason to →

Tagged ebooks, libraries, predictions, publishing

What Robinson Wells Learned Last Year

By John Brown | January 16, 2011 - 11:54 pm |January 16, 2011 On Writing

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Look, this is just an excellent post by Robinson Wells: Five Things I’ve Learned In The Last Year About Writing. I kept finding myself saying yes, yes, yes! Yes! I hate “networking” too. Icky, icky, icky. Like squishy underwear. Like buddying up to someone to get them into your network marketing downline. Like flies in soup. →

The Three Rules of Great Antagonists?

By John Brown | December 28, 2010 - 4:13 pm |December 28, 2010 On Writing

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Jennifer Crusie is a long-time pro writer. In Filled with Glee: The Unauthorized Glee Companion by Leah Wilson, Crusie had this to say about antagonists in her essay “You Think That’s Hard? Try Being an Antagonist, That’s Hard”: Why Sue Sylvester is Essential to Glee” “Sue is riveting, not only because she’s a fascinating character in her →

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