Storytellersunplugged

From birth, I had the best possible training for becoming a writer. I was born an only child. That I was also an angry, sneaky, antisocial creep with a rancid imagination only sealed the deal. When there was nothing good on either of the two TV channels, I had to make up my own fun, and my games usually took the form of ridiculously elaborate fantasy epics, which I would illustrate as comics or act out with my rubber dinosaurs and ... Read More

The Great Blow-Off-Your-Deadline Award **awarded with bitter grimaces and squeezed buttocks to those writers who fail to read the fine print and fulfill their commitments** For the past few weeks, I've been working toward a May 30 deadline in an attempt to finish a 70,000 word novelization. My publishers are trying to coordinate the on-shelf date with the film's in-theaters date. With four weeks left to go and 26K words under my belt, I thought I was doing swimmingly--which, I guess, means I was ... Read More

by David Niall Wilson I've seen a lot of posts here about collaboration, but I thought I'd share something a little more personal this time. One of my longest standing collaborative relationships is with author Brian A. Hopkins, who I've worked with time and again to wonderful results. This essay is slanted toward a single piece we wrote together, but shows the process is a more detailed fashion than my earlier piece on collaboration. I have written and worked with Brian for years, but ... Read More