The Write Thing

Welcome to the second Blogsplosion, where I bring you the summaries of my last two week’s scouring of the ‘net to bring you the best and greatest.

Authors
The inestimable Joe Abercrombie lets rip in a cracking interview over at the David Gemmel Award‘s website. Abercrombie writes fast, funny, brutal stuff, and if you haven’t read it already, here’s an official Write Thing Plug. check him out, check the interview out, go read his books. Now. Then come back to the rest of this blog post.

China Mieville, fresh off finishing Kraken, flays our faces with his own particular brand of wit, wisdom, and esoteric pop culture knowledge.

Rants
Shaun Duke from The World in the Satin Bag gives us a bit of spin on Fiction Narratives: The forgotten strand. He argues that there are two kinds of bad narratives: the predictable, and the illogical. He then soundly demolishes both, with the new Star Trek movie held up as a shining example.

Over at The Galazy Express, Heather Massy has a delicious piece on The Gritty, Smelly, Dirty Details in Science Fiction Romance.  I absolutely love when writers get passionate about good craftsmanship, and Heather does an awesome job.  If you read one thing from the Blogsplosion this week, make sure it’s this.

Romance reader?  How many sexy, galf-naked bodies do you like on your covers?  Dear Author’s got a fine discussion on the issue.

Writing Inspiration
Missy Frye, of of my favourite posters, hosts some writing from Janet Morris Grimes on “Failure as a stepping stone” over at Incurable Disease of Writing. Ms Grimes reminds writers that rejection isn’t, nor should it be, the end of a writing career.

Victoria Janssen has a short but sweet post on Making Time for your writing.  It doesn’t just happen, folks!

Right here at Write Thing, I’ve posted up a quick guide to Creating a Writing Bible.  It’s a handy resource for anyone udnertaking a serious writing journey.  Check it out!

Also this week, I have a look at the Problems with Prophecies.  Prophetic visions are the bane of good storytelling, especially in Fantasy books.  If you want my reasons why I’m warning you off them, click above.

Poetry
Mad, Mad, Mad Kane has some awesome self-referential haikus and limericks. Man, those poetric structures tickle me when done well, and I’m toasty warm all over right now.

Reviews
If the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms hasn’t blown you away yet, then read this.  Then go buy it, twice, read it, a dozen times, and give your spare copy to a friend.  Thank me later.

That’s it!
That’s everything I’ve got for you this fortnight, folks.  Write Thing is still finding it’s feet on the net, but the site’s growing in content and community nicely.  If you haven’t already, consider subscribing to the RSS feed to get more regular updates on new content.  I’m contactable by email and will respond to comments posted anywhere on the blog.

Cheers;

Pip.