#Writing Cinematically isn't the easiest practice in the world, to be sure, and I'm still trying to do it to my utmost, but here are some thoughts on it: https://boldly.blue/writing-cinematically/
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๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐น๐น๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ช๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฆ๐๐๐น๐ฒ, ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐
https://boldly.blue/harlan-ellisons-writing-style-method-and-the-stories-that-proved-it/
How'd Harlan do it? Talent? Yes. Commitment? Yes. But it's alot deeper and nuanced than that.
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https://boldly.blue/harlan-ellisons-writing-style-method-and-the-stories-that-proved-it/
@kmherkes And here is the grandmaster herself, still writing. Her talk was great, she's engaging and sharp and funny. Working on a new Oxford Time Travel book, yay! Still going at 80 years old. And she signed my books. ๐คฉ
๐คฉ I'm going to see SF Grandmaster Connie Willis speak at my local library tonight! She's one of my favorite SF authors. I love her empathy and gentle humor which are evident in her human-centric stories. My only problem...which of her books do I take to have her sign? ๐ค To Say Nothing of the Dog? The Road to Roswell? Or her story collection The Best of Connie Willis?
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Revising outline for Books 2 & 3 in my ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ (Book 1, ๐ข๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ, is out NOW!), and already started writing Book 2. Lots of skull-crushing action, future tech, love, loss & a conclusion you won't fully see coming until it hits you. https://www.amazon.com/One-Grain-Sand-Shards-Shattered/dp/B0F6H26P3M
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Read my 16-part series on what the US in 2096 is likely to resemble and why: https://boldly.blue/what-2096-could-look-like-if-we-dont-act-now/
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A lyrical, data-grounded vision of America in 2096 โ the plausible, peer-reviewed future hiding inside todayโs headlines โ drawn from the research that underlies dystopian science fiction Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy.
Complicity is the true evil in #dystopianfiction #sciencefiction and here's why: https://boldly.blue/complicity-the-most-dangerous-character-in-dystopian-fiction/
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https://boldly.blue/complicity-the-most-dangerous-character-in-dystopian-fiction/
The villain isn't the real danger in dystopian fiction: The complicit citizen is. This post is a deep dive into how complicity powers every great dystopia โ from Orwell to Atwood to Ishiguro โ and what it reveals about the systems we already live inside.
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