thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | March 28, 2008
The following clip raped my childhood (NWS audio)This one probably rapes some poor Brit’s childhood. (Again NWS audio.)This one just rapes you. (Work safe, but not sanity safe.)
Blame the Agony Booth, not me.
S Andrew Swann | March 26, 2008
Now that I finished the unscheduled spec novel (the first draft anyway) I am now in the throes of doing an editorial rewrite on Wolfbreed #1 (did I mention I need titles?) which will probably take me through mid-April (tax day, wheee). After that’s done the plan is now to attack the second book [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 23, 2008
S Andrew Swann | March 22, 2008
The first line is always a bitch. Every story needs a hook to draw the reader into it, and your primary tool is those first few words on the first page. Intimidating to think that the entire weight of thousands and thousands of words can be sitting on the shoulders of, at most, [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 20, 2008
A couple of woo-hoos:
First off, Anne at Bantam has given the ok to the outline I submitted for Wolfbreed #2 (titles, I need titles.) which means that I can go ahead with it as soon as I get the next DAW book out of the way. Second off, we are retiring the Valentine’s Night [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 19, 2008
Well, the annoying spam-meisters who’ve been peppering me with ads for self-published books have ended up on the radar of Writer Beware.
I should point out that if your publicist spammer includes in their subscriber list harvested emails someone who works to publicize nasty scams that target neophyte authors (i.e. things like charging to spam [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 13, 2008
A thread on the Agony Booth got me thinking of this movie again (see, they don’t just talk about crappy film there) and like Lost, it is unconventionally structured which in some ways highlights some of the storytelling mechanics. So I thought I’d come up with another list (which may be spoilery.)
1) Any time [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 12, 2008
Ok, there are some internet folks out there that need a whopping cluebat of perspective. May I please provide your clue:
Sexual solicitation is a non-partisan activity
Spending $20 bucks for a blow job in an airport bathroom my be sleazier than buying the service of a $5000 call girl in a luxury hotel, but is [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 7, 2008
Like I mentioned with Wolfbreed #1 some time ago, there’s a point in every novel I’ve written where I feel like, “OMG what kind of garbage am I writing here?” It always happens in the last third of the book. I hit a wall where I feel everything I’ve written is total shit [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 7, 2008
I just saw a guy wearing a snowsuit that was hunter orange camouflage.
What’s the point?
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