Writerly Ways
I spent the afternoon at COmic Con again. I have to admit it, my dream has always been to have one of my creations be the focus of a con panel. I have to say I am a bit surprised by the virtual Comic Con panels. MANY are not about shows, movies, books or comics. In fact a lot are more indirectly related, with a crap ton about diversity and representation. I certainly can't fault it for that. (though I would have liked to see a few more on actual shows, like Lucifer. Most of the show stuff was everything Star Trek, something else I won't argue with.).
I'm hoping that the YouTubes will be up indefinitely because I have at least another 12 hours of stuff bookmarked. In fact, many many of them were all about the craft of writing and I'm going to share many this week and next (if they're still up) I'll put them up as links rather than embedding because it'll be less obnoxious that way.
So from Comic-Con (honestly even I haven't watched them all)
Finance For Creatives
YA Fantasy and the Power of Storytelling
Women On The Dark Side
Your Secret Weapon: How Friendship Saves the Day
The Female and Non-Binary Authors who Bridge the new Frontier of Space Fiction
Fantasy & Sci Fi Authors
Masters of Storytelling I will say you can start this around 18-20 minutes in. the first part is not on point
Creating the Memorable Characters of Image Comics
And from Betty:
The Power of Story
4 questions to prevent plot holes
Conflict vs. Tension
Time to make fresh tracks
Seven Reasons Storytellers Should Consume Bad Stories There is some good points in here if you ignore the fact that 7 times out of 10 Mythcreant authors are a pretentious bunch of jackasses (and this one is a great example or maybe I'm just touchy because a) I'm supposed to take someone calling themselves Bunny as a professional handle seriously b) they called all of Star Trek Voyager bad writing we can learn from.)
I'm hoping that the YouTubes will be up indefinitely because I have at least another 12 hours of stuff bookmarked. In fact, many many of them were all about the craft of writing and I'm going to share many this week and next (if they're still up) I'll put them up as links rather than embedding because it'll be less obnoxious that way.
So from Comic-Con (honestly even I haven't watched them all)
Finance For Creatives
YA Fantasy and the Power of Storytelling
Women On The Dark Side
Your Secret Weapon: How Friendship Saves the Day
The Female and Non-Binary Authors who Bridge the new Frontier of Space Fiction
Fantasy & Sci Fi Authors
Masters of Storytelling I will say you can start this around 18-20 minutes in. the first part is not on point
Creating the Memorable Characters of Image Comics
And from Betty:
The Power of Story
4 questions to prevent plot holes
Conflict vs. Tension
Time to make fresh tracks
Seven Reasons Storytellers Should Consume Bad Stories There is some good points in here if you ignore the fact that 7 times out of 10 Mythcreant authors are a pretentious bunch of jackasses (and this one is a great example or maybe I'm just touchy because a) I'm supposed to take someone calling themselves Bunny as a professional handle seriously b) they called all of Star Trek Voyager bad writing we can learn from.)