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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Awards vs. Popularity
Flowing Data recently highlighted an interesting infographic which contrasted the yearly difference between the top ten grossing movies and Academy Award nominations over the past century… What I love about infographics is how easily they can sum up a lot of data … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and the Web, Infographics, News and Info, Opinion, TV and Movies
Tagged Academy Awards, box office, infographics, movies
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Self-Published Author Hits 1 Million in Sales
As an independent author, I love coming across a story like this one… Self-published crime and western novelist John Locke (no, not that John Locke or that one either) has joined the Kindle Million club, having sold 1 million ebooks … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration and Motivation, News and Info, Publishing
Tagged John Locke, Kindle, self-publishing, success
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Creating Good Characters – Personality (Steadiness)
As an author, I’m asked by both readers and other authors on how I develop my characters. I think all writers draw from their own personal experiences and from people they know to create those in their stories. I once … Continue reading
Cool Stuff for June
As a speculative fiction author and blogger, I try to skip over the typical stuff most spec fic sites cover like upcoming movies and TV, focusing instead on the more esoteric. But, I’ll make an exception on this one… PopSci … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and the Web, Gadgets and Gizmos, Science, Speculative Fiction, TV and Movies
Tagged Bigfoot, contest, Gizmag, hovercraft, Humor, IO9, movies, photographic proof, PopSci, Sci-fi, Science, science fiction, scifi, technology
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3D Printing
3D printing has been in the news a lot lately and the implications are huge. How huge? Big Think speculates it may spark a revolution in home manufacturing. Here’s a quick primer: these aren’t printers that create 3D images, these are … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and the Web, Futurism, Gadgets and Gizmos, News and Info, Opinion, Science
Tagged 3D Printing, digital revolution, future technology, future trends, Science
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Creating Good Characters – Personality (Influence)
As an author, I spend more time developing believable, relate-able, and memorable characters than anything else. I’ve found that if I invest a lot of time up-front in designing and learning who my characters are, it takes a lot of … Continue reading
Setbacks
As an author I’ve faced my share of setbacks. I have a drawer full of rejection letters from publishers. I’ve lost work from computer issues or more often from my own mistakes like forgetting to save my work. And I … Continue reading
Posted in Life, News and Info, Publishing, Writing
Tagged author, discouragement, Publishing, setbacks, trials, website, writing
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Twitter Stuff
Joining Twitter is one of those things on my to-do list, though a bit lower than it probably should be (seeing as how I’ve not done it in the year+ it’s been on my list). My challenge would be in … Continue reading
Creating Good Characters – Personality (Dominance)
I’ve found business help books are helpful in creating memorable characters, especially books that deal with personal interactions. Over the next few weeks, I’ll highlight a few things I’ve learned recently from personal research and from an ebook I got … Continue reading
Edward D. Casey 