It’s still an amazing world, in spite of the crazy, astonishing, and sometimes horrifying headlines the news and social media focus on. I’ve got some cool things for you! A Paper Bag Mask Party, the 5th Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, Map of the Aquilan Empire, How Writers Can Make Peace With Their Busy Minds, and a quote for readers…
Five Good Things (#12): In which we talk about Fantasy Requirements / Nora Roberts’ Legal Action on Digital Plagiarism / The World of Domhantyr / How to Spell “Fish” / The only library in the world that operates in two countries at once.
Terrible, trying things happen, sure, but among all the tears and terror, there are beautiful things going on. Check out these amazing people using their noggins for good things!
I discovered that the world is full of cool at a really young age. At age eight or so, I’d found heaven—And now our ability to learn wonderful (and sometimes weird) things is limitless: we have the internet! I sometimes stand in severe danger of walking in and never coming out again. The world is full of cool.
The ethersphere is full of fantastic goodness—and by that I mean there are a lot of cool fantasy-type things and fantasy-seeming things out there for us to discover! Sometimes it’s hard limiting myself to just five pieces of awesomeness, but if I didn’t we’d all be down an endless rabbit hole. Come see what I found this time!
In Real Life, the Green Gomboo is sticking to me like glue. Luckily, there are more exciting things going on in the world than my slow-as-a-herd-of-snails recovery. Like pre-orders for a book by one of my favorite authors.
Welcome to another installment of “Five Good Things”! What’s up? A book goes to TV. Writers retreat. A vocabulary test. A tiny house village. A poll.
This time FIVE GOOD THINGS begins with my procrastination via “The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood, and visits chocolate and maps. Not in that order.
Five Good Things is such a great article to put together. I get to share some of the cool things I’ve found while procrastinating researching my own writing! Use Scrivener to Manage Your Blog http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2016/03/03/scrivener-book-marketing/ Writing straight into your blog software (WordPress, Typepad, etc.) presents its own problems—you can’t write offline, and searching through old blog posts to find mentions on a specific subject can be difficult. Boy, has Joanna Penn got some great advice! I’m definitely bookmarking this page. The Arcanist’s Mill – A Wizard’s Tower Map with a Twist http://www.fantasticmaps.com/2016/02/the-arcanists-mill_a-wizards-tower-map/ Jonathan Roberts makes awesome, drool-worthy maps. Lands of […]
I have Five Good Things for you! Actually, I have a lot more than that, but this is supposed to be a quick read. So many bloggers and writers out here in the internet world create such good stuff, sometimes it’s hard to choose! Pay What You Want For Ten Great Novels https://storybundle.com/fiction StoryBundle is an awesome idea from the get-go. “The VanderMeer Winter Mix Tape Bundle,” curated by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, is a collection of ten novels including the original anthology Bestiary, with new fiction from China Miéville and Catherynne M. Valente. Christmas gifts, anyone? Top Christmas Gifts […]