Are Facebook, Twitter and IM having any effect on the quality or volume of my work? These questions, coupled with a very long list of goals I wanted to accomplish, plagued me like a broken plot.
What you need to do is keep throwing troubles, conflicts, surprises, and obstacles at the reader. You also need to let the hero have some successes. This allows the reader to have cause to fear AND hope, and to not know for sure how it’s all going to turn out.
You can read excerpts from Locus's interview with SFWA member @daviddlevine at http://tinyurl.com/45y737b # SFWA member @alcole123 STEN IN HOLLYWOOD:
Forty authors will sign their books at the Nebula Awards Weekend, Friday, May 20, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Hilton at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.–located four blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro Station (use the Q Street exit).
@LAGilman The rules for posthumous wins would come into play. #
@katrinaarcher They are doing a voter packet this year. # Charles Waverly and the Deadly African Safari by SFWA member
My characters always come first. You can’t have a plot if you don’t know who is going to move through it. Onyesonwu came to me way before her story did. The first scene I wrote was the first scene of the novel. No outline, no nothing. Just Onyesonwu at her father’s burial and some madness happens.
You become a writer by writing. You learn by damaging your ego, and giving more of yourself than you take. By a thousand revelations, by millions of words you improve.
Congratulations to SFWA member @BrandSanderson on his Whitney Award win for "The Way Of Kings." #
If the main character is sympathetic and interesting, the reader will root for her and want to see what happens. If some of the particularities of the character and problem are surprising to the readers, it will generate more interest than if it’s something they’ve seen many times before.
Interview with fashionpunk novelist & SFWA member @jon_armstrong. http://is.gd/nkzOTW # SFWA member @StinaLeicht is signing at Barnes & Noble in
Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member @DianeWhiteside, author of The Shadow Guard (Kensington, 2011) http://www.dianewhiteside.com/ # Welcome to SFWA's newest
