SpeedI had a conversation recently with some indie writer friends and we were comparing notes on how to write faster and better. Two of them are following a particular method (Book in a Month) that shuts off your inner editor and gets down to the nuts and bolts of putting words on a page. [Read more…]
My prediction: Best Music Video, 2014. 🙂
Addendum: If you liked the video, you have to check out the blog post on how it was made by the one-man shop who created it, Jarrett Heather.
I’m not a futurist, but as an indie writer with a tech background and a serious thing for video games, it’s difficult for me not to think about the consumptive future of story-telling.
That’s a made-up term I just invented, but the concept is simple enough: the vast majority of consumable entertainment—movies, books, video games, and television–manifests itself as story-telling. And, thanks to the internet, media is now in the early stages of ubiquity, which is to say:
If you have a computer and an internet connection, all story-telling, in any form, will be made available to you.
There is nothing original in this statement—I won’t even take credit for it, because I’m sure it’s just me putting words to a standard and accepted form of groupthink.
But I didn’t think I’d see the physical manifestation of it so soon, and in the form of paradigmatic shifts that, I believe, we will be seeing in 2-3 years.
Long-time readers of this blog might remember a wee bit o’ ire I’ve shown in the past for reviews of the one- and two-star variety, like the guy who gave me two stars for my Three Shorts anthology because it was “too violent, too scary”…even though it has bullets on the front cover and is sold in the Crime Fiction section.
After less than scintillating results on, well, every e-book retail outlet except Amazon, I was inspired to create what is quite possibly the worst drawn cartoon in the world.
I would be more charitable to Amazon’s competition if:
Until then, it’s probably back to Select for me, like every other indie author except Bob Mayer.
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