Love Songs to Rock and Roll

Mostly, don't. Book recommendation: The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Reading advice, from one writer to the rest.

I am working, in spite of appearances. Follow me on Patreon, if you're into that sort of thing.

Book recommendation: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Book and music recommendations: "Underground" by Tom Waits, and Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

In this one we talk about what to do with the doubt coming from the thought, "Nobody wants what I have to offer." And how to never have writer's block again.

Part writing tips, part the story of stories. I'm doing an audio blog, because I have stuff to say, and I get impatient with writing it down sometimes.

Reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling and Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Reading Wool by Hugh Howie. PS: this episode may contain spoilers, depending how you define spoilers.

Reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling.

Some light reading. How free are you?

I think sexism is fundamentally cowardly.

I don't believe in conspiracy theory. But I do respect a good plot.

It's important to learn to think of worst case scenarios when coming up with stories. It's also important to think of solutions to those scenarios. That's where satisfying stories happen.

Cataclysmic events drop on us sometimes, and they cause paradigm shift. I take comfort in history.

Recorded during the discount plague. It's a metaphor, like all the best stories. Harry Potter is also disturbing.

I finished reading Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. I THINK I liked it...

Peter Clines writes good books. And if you should happen to read some of my stories, I do like to know what people think, even if I never ask.

In which I express my impatience to share my collection of short stories with you.

Tuesday is named after an old, old god. He was once the Sky Father. Now he is a multitude. Also, so far, Ninefox Gambit is a good book. We shall see if it continues to be.

Characters need to be consistently inconsistent, like real people, but they shouldn't be too much like real people. Characters from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke examined.

Society isn't designed for shy people to thrive.

Make your heroes smart by making your villains competent.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke is a book I once judged by the cover. It turned out pretty well.

Self-employment is an interesting world. I am a professional writer. It's pretty sweet. Check out my book on Amazon: Ragged Museum by Oliver Blakemore.

I talk about being glad to be understood. The book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick.

Keep an eye out for my upcoming book of short stories, Ragged Museum by Oliver Blakemore.

The book I talk about in this is Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

In which I talk about sympathy for characters in stories.

What I like about The Expanse books, my dad's approach to new technology, and why those of us who like the idea of space travel should take comfort in human nature.

I think it's time to find tools for genre distinctions that are less prescriptive and more responsive.

I want to start an institution that funds all the life expenses of creative types while they get their careers started.

Build a relationship of trust with your hairdresser, and never make the same mistakes as Hitler.