Tag: Opinion
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The Blog is NOT Dead
Some people say the blog is dead. An impassioned argument for why this is not true and what the act of maintaining a blog does for your writing.
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The Wrong Vehicle
An author more interested in forwarding a political agenda than delivering a good story.
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Undermining Your Own Themes
Not worth the hype. A story that is constantly undermining its own themes with strange changes of direction.
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Showing up – to your marketing
Thoughts on and plan for brand building for authors by a sceptic. take it with a grain of salt.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.
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Finding your Why
A mindful and holistic approach to writing that helped me find my why and block my flow (kind of). Recommend for anyone struggling to get the story out.
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Pointless Fan-Service
Book Review of The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera. A vacuous cash-grab of a story which takes 500 pages to say not much of anything.
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Its a Marathon, not a Sprint
A book launch goes wrong for the protagonist when someone asks a question she was not expecting.
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Agatha Christie, but with Body-hopping and Time-travel
All the structural complexity of a Agatha Christine mystery, mixed with time-travel and body-hopping to produce a gothic tour de force.
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Comments and our tech Overlords
Musing on the utility of website and social comments as a way of engaging with your audience, a reaction to Show Your Work By Austin Kleon