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Ink and Inner Balance of Creative Fires: Fanning Flames of Imagination with Self-Care

Ink and Inner Balance of Creative Fires: Fanning Flames of Imagination with Self-Care It’s almost PrepTober my fellow writers. Wowza! For those who are participating in Nanowrimo this is the prepping month, only a measly 31 days, of October. It is the strategy month before you write, write, write, and write some more. To paraphrase […]

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Wormholes and Wonderland: Adventures in Interstellar Portals

Wormholes and Wonderland: Adventures in Interstellar Portals Welcome to the cosmic gateway of storytelling wonders! We’re about to embark on an interdimensional journey through the intriguing world of wormholes in science fiction and fantasy storytelling. Wormholes, those enigmatic tunnels through spacetime, have long captivated the imaginations of writers and readers alike. They are the cosmic

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The Cosmic Carnival: Villains and Hero’s in Sci-Fi Fantasy Worlds

The Cosmic Carnival: Villains and Hero’s in Sci-Fi Fantasy Worlds Welcome, fellow adventurers, bibliophiles, and dreamers, to a literary realm where the laws of physics take coffee breaks and magic is just a spell (or two) away from changing everything. If you’ve ever yearned to escape the humdrum of reality, to traverse distant galaxies, or

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Critiquing Your Beloved Books: 7 Whimsical Ways to Do It Right!

Critiquing Your Beloved Books: 7 Whimsical Ways to Do It Right! Welcome, bookworms and literary aficionados, to a delightfully paradoxical journey through the art of critiquing books you absolutely adore! You know that feeling when you finish a captivating read, and your heart is bursting with admiration, but your inner critic can’t let go of

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Essential Software for Authors Part 1

Essential Software for Authors: The Intersection of Writing and Technology Part 1 I’m a writer. I spend hours, days, and years, on my laptop writing. Blogs, articles, and novels are my focus. Last year I posted two serial novels on Kindle Vella and now that they are complete, they will be published as e-books. That’s

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Editing Your Parallel Universe: Tips for SFF Authors

Editing Your Parallel Universe: Tips for SFF Authors Let me greet you as you enter this realm of words and wonder. <Waving an intergalactic tentacle>. This blog is a safe haven for Dukes, Knights, Serfs, and galactic creatures, any race of the undiscovered star-scape. Read on to examine the brewing mixture of information, explanation, exploration,

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JLNICH blog beats article What Do Reader Want: Science Fiction Exploring Controversial Topics or Themes

What Do Readers Want: Science Fiction Exploring Controversial Topics or Themes

What Do Readers Want: Science Fiction Exploring Controversial Topics or Themes As a reader, we want to know many things about a book before, during, and sometimes after we read it. How long is it? What’s the target audience? Is it part of a series? How much do I have to pay for it and

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The Six Science Fiction Books I Want to Be Buried With.

JL NICH Blog Beats The Six Science Fiction Books I Want to Be Buried With. What are your favorite books of all time?

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7 Tips How to Create a New Species for SFF Authors

As an author or storyteller, have you ever wondered where the Star Wars franchise, overly hairy, Chewbacca came from? Or who designed the magnificent Kraken creation from Clash of the Titans? What did you think about the amazing worms from Frank Herbert’s Dune? Did you find the lovely Borrowers made famous by author Mary Norton to be utterly fantastical?

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How to Write from Zero to Hero.

How can a writer go from Zero to Hero? What does that look like in a novel?
Have you ever said out loud ‘this is the best freak’n book’? That writer is a hero. But what did this novel give other books didn’t? How did the writer tap into your emotions (think The Hunger Games with Rue (author Suzanne Collins), or the last time Black Beauty sees his girlfriend Ginger (author Anna Sewell), or when Luke Skywalker shoots the photons into the Death Star, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (author George Lucas)? Perhaps the author built the climax to such a high pinnacle you felt each step as you read further (maybe not quite as literally as the Lord of the Rings with Frodo at the Mountain of Doom, but something like that) (author J. R. R. Tolkien)?

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