Archive for the ‘Fiction Rants’ Category

Feeding my new friends to sharks.

A quick list of where to get started. The first four blogs I followed and why I still watch them today.

Newsflash – Kids think The Kindle is crapola. Kindle lovers disagree.

Will the iPad kill the Kindle or is it destined to sit on the shelf next to your Apple Newton? Only time will tell.

Who’s counting? My defeat at the jaws NaNoWriMo beast..

21,136 words in 30 days and I’m a loser. I think not. First of all, I have excuses.

Thinking ahead. Are you sure you know your reader?

Working with the marketing team at EA/Hasbro, has changed my viewpoint on how to approach my target market. Now I’m starting to think about how to reach my readers and what they will want, not today, but 2 years down the road. If you are not thinking about this you might be left out in the cold.

Conflict -vs- Action

You can write a novel without Action. You can write a game without Conflict. What happens when the two come together can be magic. A real, peanut butter in my chocolate moment.