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Category Archives: Advice


Oct 5 2012

Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling on Where Good Ideas Come From | Brain Pickings

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Brent Pope

I don’t think a pack of Marlboro’s is one of the places.

Here’s where I found it.

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Aug 1 2012

Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing – NYTimes.com

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Brent Pope

If you’re a writer (or even if you’re not) and you haven’t seen this, head on over the New York Times site and read this. It’s hilarious.

Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing – NYTimes.com.

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Apr 3 2012

Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Brent Pope

Just became aware of this site. Clive Staples Lewis was one of my favorite authors Continue reading »

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Mar 27 2012

25 Lies Writers Tell And Start To Believe

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Brent Pope

There is profanity in this. Then again, there is profanity in stuff I write. Either way, be warned. Continue reading »

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Mar 20 2012

Things I’ve Learned about Writing, #1

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Brent Pope

Last summer, after a 20+ year hiatus, I started writing again. (Oh the irony; more about that in another post.) And I found, as I wrote, that I was learning things, things I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t been actually writing, as opposed to simply reading about writing or listening to someone else tell me about writing. Continue reading »

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About

Writer of contemporary short fiction for grown-ups and speculative fiction for juveniles. Current projects include Colin's Monster - The Horde from Hell, a middle-grade/YA fantasy adventure novel, and The Princess and Her Parents, a transitional reader.

Wisdom

  • “Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it.”
    -Jack London

Recent Posts

  • Things I’ve Learned About Writing, #15
  • Super Bowl. Super Storytelling.
  • A New Year

What I’m Reading

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Blogroll

  • Amy Tan's Blog
  • Baldwin Writers Group
  • Caro Clarke's Writing Blog
  • Flavorwire
  • JD Ost
  • Mobile Writers Guild
  • Neil Gaiman Blog
  • Read Kiddo Read
  • Rick Riordan's Site
  • Science Fiction Writers of America
  • Ted Talks
  • Writer's Workshop Blog

Authors and Books I Like

Pawn in Frankincense and others from the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Mere Christianity and others by C.S. Lewis
The Flashman books by George Macdonald Fraser
Rick Riordan's YA books (no one starts a novel better)

 
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