by admin | Jul 20, 2026 | Articles, News, Writers Apps
AI Slop: One star reviews Most authors have had one: a one star review, together with hurtful words like ‘slop’, ‘unfortunate’, and ‘confusing’. If the reader didn’t like the book, they make up things about it and they even accuse authors of using AI when they...
by admin | Jul 25, 2020 | Articles
World building is a big thing for writers today. Readers and viewers like to escape to the familiar, fantasy or unknown worlds where our characters dwell. As we embark on designing our new world, we’re thinking landscape and orientation, key features and...
by admin | Dec 21, 2018 | Articles
I Hear You, I See You To begin a discussion about why format matters in screenwriting, I’m going to start with an amazing story. In 1977, NASA launched two exploration vehicles into space, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were programmed to explore around Jupiter and the...
by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | News
The Helsinki Bus Station Theory If any writer’s roller-coaster emotional journey could be plotted on a graph, it would probably look like a sin wave, or like the knee-jerk stock-exchange pic I’ve attached to this post. Writer, do you ever feel like one of those...
by admin | Jun 17, 2018 | News
It’s out! FLAT SQUIRREL My new book for middle graders, and for grown-ups who never grew up. I had a lot of fun writing it, although there were the tough bits of nailing the story logic and making the prose readable. You’ll find it in the Troubador...
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