What Writers Should Blog About
Writers have to do marketing too. That’s the truth, no matter what model they publish through. We hate it, but there are prices to pay...
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Oliver Blakemore
Nov 202 min read
How to Break Stories and Why it's Better than Outlining Stories
Let’s steal a tool. In TV writing, they use a tool called “breaking a story.” TV writers have to short-circuit their creativity sometimes...
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Oliver Blakemore
Nov 132 min read
Getting a Literary Agent: an ongoing story
The Moon and the Stars I study bushido. A samurai called Musashi Miyamoto has a lesson he calls, “The Moon and the Stars.” It’s his...
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Oliver Blakemore
Oct 292 min read
Fantasy Writer's List of Cool Stuff
Here’s a list of stuff I like. I’ll write about why I like some of this stuff later, but I want you to know some stuff I like because...
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 16, 20232 min read
Books Described Badly: A Book Where Music is Magic
The book did everything. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking alternately, and it ended in a genre I wasn't expecting.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 9, 20231 min read
Books Described Badly: Fantasy Uplifted
It’s a beautifully written, magical story that takes place in England’s Victorian era.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 8, 20231 min read
Today's Band Shirt: Flight Kamikaze's Extra Punk
Flight Kamikaze is a Colorado punk band. They know their job, and they do it right.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 6, 20231 min read
Today's Band Shirt: Metal for Nerds (so for everyone)
Mississippi Bones makes the metalest of music. They sprang out of the ADD fugue state of their founding member, Jared Collins.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 3, 20231 min read
Books Described Badly
Connor has a hobby, then gets arrested. Sky uses her superpower to defeat blue light special Dracula.
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Oliver Blakemore
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Books Described Badly
Among the most metal books I've ever read. If you like seeing "punk" genres in their nascent stages, Gibson's a good dude to look for.
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Oliver Blakemore
Jun 8, 20231 min read
Books Described Badly
Cities in Flight by James Blish A strangely well-written book for being such hard science fiction. This book described badly: the entire...
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Oliver Blakemore
Sep 14, 20224 min read
Not the Dresden Files for a Reason
My book is not like the Dresden Files (but it is) or urban fantasy Firefly (but it is) or like a D&D campaign.
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Oliver Blakemore
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Not a review of Nova by Samuel R. Delaney--Wrong hero. Too few drugs.
Review of book, Nova by Samuel R Delaney. Required reading for hipsters, stoners, and people who need to learn how to write science fiction.
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Oliver Blakemore
Sep 1, 20223 min read
Writing advice for my twelve-year-old self.
Writing advice to my younger self.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 25, 20223 min read
Not a review of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Not a review of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Ambitious but lame.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 17, 20223 min read
The ingredients of Stories and how to shop for them
How to write stories. Pretty foolproof method that'll help any writer to focus their story ideas.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 15, 20222 min read
Not a review of Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Not as clever as I wish it were. Foundation and Empire tells the story of a God complex as big as your arm tangling with severe...
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 11, 20222 min read
Not a Review of: Slan by A.E. Van Vogt
It MIGHT be racist. Not quite sure. Slan tells the story of Übermensch Jommy Cross and his journey to achieve world peace through the...
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Why You Should Set Reading Goals.
Blog about my science fiction book list. Book recommendations! And reasons not to give book recs.
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Oliver Blakemore
May 5, 20224 min read
Solving for Why: My Musical Writing
Self-employment, it turns out, means spending a lot of time listening to people who are in the business of making money. Self-employment...
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