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Check out these posts by Tom Williams,a literary agent and biographer of hard-boiled crime fiction master,Raymond Chandler. Tom is reviewing the new Rockstar game,“LA Noire”: LA Noire and Raymond Chandler (Part 1) LA Noire and The Big Sleep
LA Noire and Raymond Chandler (Part 1) . . . →Read More:Game Noir? “LA Noire”and Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles It seems like the last few times I’ve read certain authors,their names have become prefixed with “Uncle”in my mind. Is that weird? Well,maybe. It’s human though. I guess I want to identify with,or feel connected to good storytellers. When I read Einstein’s book on Relativity,his voice was so distinctively heard . . . →Read More:On Reading:Raymond Chandler,a Biography  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Life,Pop Culture,Reading  Culture,fiction,Life Story,novel,Reading This inspiring article by Valentina Nesci (from www.write-a-holic.com) offered me a “big picture”view on my pursuit of fiction writing… . . . →Read More:On Writing:“Anatomy of a Writer” What is it that will drive a character to take an action? By this,I mean to ask “What,in the character’s mind/worldview is the rationale that will cause them to do one thing instead of another? For the Author,this includes considering the underlying goal of driving the story in a believable way,consistent . . . →Read More:On Writing:Motivating Characters (and their Author) To observe and comment on your life and world,you need to have a certain amount of objectivity –detachment –from it. If you’re too-comfortably living inside your world,you really can’t see the outside shape of it. . . . →Read More:On Writing:Having Uncommon Thoughts in Common For me,writing is a lot like an act of integration. Taking disparate chunks of experience and combining them into an assemblage or collage gives them added meaning. I think that this is what is intended by the word “juxtaposition”in art/design terminology. It boils down the creating a new whole out of a bunch of summed-up parts. . . . →Read More:On Writing:Visualization and Collage in Storytelling… My Dad was born in 1921,and as a young kid,knowing that he grew up during the Great Depression had always fascinated me. During the Great Depression,times were tough for Dad’s family,I’m sure,but I would learn in Social Studies class that other families had it much worse during that time,particularly farmers,and especially in the United States. That is the setting of Steinbeck’s major novel,“The Grapes of Wrath”. . . . →Read More:On Writing:John Steinbeck,the Grapes of Wrath,and my Dad’s Stories. The raw material of a story or any creative work probably comes from at least two kinds of sources:the Subjective,and the Objective. Somewhere between these two seemingly opposite categories sits the Artist,who must decide how and when to engage either approach,and whether to use an unbalanced or balanced approach. . . . →Read More:On Research and Digging Deep:Setting the Tone for Believability In the spirit of “try before you buy”,I invite you to read a preview of my novel,Owe Nothing,on Google Books. Owe Nothing is my non-mainstream look at Vancouver:an adventure novel based upon real people and places that I knew when my family lived in dodgy Kingsway Motels for over a year. The . . . →Read More:Preview Owe Nothing Free,on Google Books One comment - (Comments are closed) Book Marketing,Life,Publishing,Reading,Writing Book Marketing,fiction,Life Story,novel,owe nothing,publication,Vancouver,Writing Check out the new book trailer video for Owe Nothing: http://ejohnlovebooks.com/books/owe-nothing/owe-nothing-video-trailers/ This captures a bit of the humour and intrigue of Owe Nothing. I think I definitely see more video trailers in my future… (Apex Reviews,and GhostWriter Extraordinare) One comment - (Comments are closed) Book Marketing,Publishing,Writing Book Marketing,fiction,marketing,novel,owe nothing |    | ||||
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