I’m always excited for new Marvel releases, and I excitedly showed up for the midnight opening of Captain Marvel here in the UK. This is actually only the second midnight screening I’ve ever been to, the first one being Star Wars: The Last Jedi back in December 2017.
Captain Marvel tells the origin story for Carol Danvers, a pilot and soldier with mystical powers. Even she’s not sure where these powers came from—nor can she remember much about her past life. All she knows at the start of the movie is that she’s strong, fierce, and a capable soldier.
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I’ve long been a fan of JSB’s. He’s written some of the best books available on the writing craft, and he has the publishing experience to back it up. He’s an award-winning novelist, so we can safely say he’s walked the walk.
By the end of this post, you will have the tools to become a voracious reader.
This is going to be a long post, and I ask you to be patient and read all the way through, because I believe that book-reading is the most beneficial exercise we can engage in.
This week we have another great interview guest, a legend of the screenwriting craft. His next book, The Last Fifty Pages, is available for pre-order and will be available on 18th February.
In this week's blog post I am excited to share an interview with one of my writing heroes, whose latest novel Wayfarer is now available on Amazon.
K.M. Weiland’s books on the writing craft are rightly regarded as must-reads for all kinds of novelists and storytellers, so I was excited to read her latest novel and share it with you all today.
This week I just got done re-reading Mastery by Robert Greene for what's probably the tenth time—I've lost count by this point. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this is my all-time favourite book.
You see, despite some of the more objective successes I’ve had in the last couple of weeks like my first public talk for my book, I’ve slipped into a low mood due to some poor sleep habits. That, and having to handle a technical emergency at my 9-5 job and doing a full shift on a Saturday.
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Yesterday I gave a talk to an audience of local writers in Nantwich, Cheshire, with the topic "Research and Planning in Storytelling". With it being my first public event about my book, I was nervous but also excited. Liam and the organising team were most helpful and the local writers were warm and welcoming, asking lots of great questions.
The most common questions asked in my talk were about book publishing itself. This surprised me, but it’s also logical. I spend so much time going over the structure of good stories and the human psychology that makes them resonate so strongly, that I forget that for a lot of writers, their confusion lies mostly in the actual nuts and bolts of actually getting the book out there.
So for this week’s edition of the newsletter, I thought I’d write down a kind of transcript of my answers to the broad topics most asked at my talk, so that all of my newsletter subscribers gain the benefit from the advice. This advice will give you a clearer picture of how you can get your story idea into people’s hands, and show you that it’s less confusing and murky than it might seem from the outside.
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Merry Christmas and happy winter holidays! We’re at the final weekly newsletter email for 2018. And what a year it has been! So many great books have been published, Kindle ebook sales are on the rise, as are indie brick-and-mortar book stores around the world. And for me, I wrote and published my very first non-fiction title, The 24 Laws of Storytelling.
This time of year, it’s natural to think ahead to what we can achieve in the coming year. 2019 indeed holds incredible potential for the writerverse. I’ve been told by inside sources that there are updates-a-plenty for the Kindle reading app for Android (hint: infinite scrolling!), and a lot of my writer friends have titles planned for release in 2019.
I watched Aquaman last Sunday and I really enjoyed it. I loved all the characters and James Wan has done a great job directing some great performances from the entire cast. The best way I can summarise Aquaman is: big, fun, and explosive. It definitely doesn't pull any punches. There are huge, screen-filling, epic war scenes between armies that are impressively helmed and remind me the original Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
On Sunday I went to an early preview screening of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ahead of its UK release on the 12th. In this story, New York teenager Miles Morales gets bitten by a radioactive spider and... I feel like you should know the story by now.
