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What does it mean when the major online retailer of books and movies is getting into the content production business? It’s more industry convergence that proves that “content is king”, even when it’s crowdsourced… I think that Amazon is doing a kind of Zeroes2Heroes approach to getting original content, but on a bigger, Amazon scale: promises . . . → Read More: Amazon Studios & Bootstrapping Original Content Other than the occasional blog post, I haven’t written anything of consequence, personally, in close to a year. So goes my on-again-off-again relationship with creative writing. The stopper (or slower-downer) for me this time has been a preoccupation with money (re: earning more) and enduring a series of extensive repairs and renovations to our condo. . . . → Read More: Getting closer to writing again… My headphones are in. Robert Plant wails and Jimmy Page brings layer after layer of metal blues and funk. My heart has been uninspired to do anything creative for weeks. Fuck my own voice, I seem to have been murmuring to myself. Just work and get paid. Get it done, and climb out of that . . . → Read More: Stream of conscious delight With just a little time, there’s a chance to flex my mind… How and what will I try to say today? Will it be words, peeping out from pigeonholes? Scraps of memories in my ear… Will it be pencil scribbles or little points of light? In a way that you can see but not quite . . . → Read More: How and what will I try to say today? I just had this image of my Mum and Dad, not as they were in most of my memories, but from a time years before me and my sister were born, a time when they were younger, healthier and happier – maybe a time when they were truly in sync and in love as a . . . → Read More: Sandwiches by the Lake Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to sit down with Canadian author Jay Clarke (aka “Michael Slade”). He’s a former lawyer and the author of over a dozen crime novels, in a genre sometimes referred to as “Mountie Noir”. (It’s a great label – almost as good, IMHO, as “Tartan Noir”, which refers to . . . → Read More: Meeting Michael Slade and talking about eBooks  Comments are closed  Book Marketing, Life, Publishing, Writing  Book Marketing, fiction, marketing, novel, publication, Vancouver, Writing I’m still getting used to working with Scrivener, but its design is encouraging me to organize my manuscript in a better way. When I wrote Owe Nothing, I saw individual scenes first; specific exchanges between characters, or particular story “beats” that were important to me. However, I didn’t start with much of an overall framework . . . → Read More: On Process: How Scrivener is changing how I write… Have I said how much I am loving Scrivener? I am loving Scrivener. When I started writing my first novel, Owe Nothing, my initial tools were a notebook (the dead-tree-based, spiral-bound kind) and a variety of ballpoint pens. I wrote a dozen pages at a time, “long hand” as they say.I would write at home, . . . → Read More: On Process: Getting to Love Scrivener I’ve been revisiting and researching famous stories and hero myths, starting from the most recent, pop cultural stories and their influences, and then digging down deeper into personal territory, furrowing paths that lead me to my mother and father, and to my images and beliefs of myself. I’m a fan of pop culture, comic books, . . . → Read More: On Research and Creativity: Archetypes and Inspiration… One comment - (Comments are closed) Learning, Life, Pop Culture, Process, Research, Writing fiction, Life Story, novel, owe nothing, Writing I’ve only ever read snippets of Joseph Campbell’s books on heroes and heroic tales and myths, so I never expected to find influences in his works. Yet, the influence is there. Many other writers and film-makers *have* studied Campbell (not the least of them being George Lucas). So, in being a fan of modern epics . . . → Read More: On Research: Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey One comment - (Comments are closed) Learning, Process, Research, Writing adventure, Culture, fiction, Life Story, Writing |
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