This week's post at the TheSupercargo is actually hosted on the website of my writers' group, Pens Around the World. It's about reading Stephen King's 'On Writing' at the same time as attending the Stockholm Writers' Festival. Read more, should you wish, by following this link.

https://pensaroundtheworld.com/weewis/stephen-king-and-the-stockholm-writers-festival/

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#thesupercargo #amblogging #swf23 #stockholmwritersfestival #pensaroundtheworld #writersgroup #stephenking #onwriting

#OnWriting
It's delving into the souls of our ancestors and divining the hearts of our children.
It's simultaneously something everyone can and should do and a carefully learned & refined craft.
But most of all, it's a creative endeavour at the heart of humanity.
#AmWriting

New blog post

When Characters Take the Reins : Embracing the Unpredictability of Writing

https://bit.ly/43AO0c1

#WritingCommunity #OnWriting #WritingCraft #AmWriting

Writer’s Diary 26: Kayaking, Writing, and Hiking
I spent the early morning kayaking. We left at 6:15 and finished at 8:45. It was glorious. The summer sun, at 6 o’clock, was a red ball in the sky that reminded me more than anything of when I was on an exchange in India at 18, with the sun rising red above the fog south of Delhi in an agricultural region where I lived for
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/writers-diary-26-kayaking-writing-and-hiking/
#WritersDiary #glory #kayaking #OnWriting

Writer’s Diary #24: A 21st Century Typewriter
Ezra Klein has a great interview with [Tom Hanks] (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-tom-hanks.html). It starts with Klein and Hanks talking typewriters. I loved it.

One detail, the custom-made typewriter desk Hanks had built. Another, the fact that he writes a quick letter to his wife, running out the door at
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/a-21st-century-typewriter/
#WritersDiary #freewrite #OnWriting #typewriter

Writer’s Diary #21 – Yesterday, a good day. Why?
Yesterday, I had what felt like an unusually good day of writing. So, I want to reflect on what worked. Of course, with an eye on how to repeat it.

Some observations:

Writing was the priority. I didn’t schedule writing, nor plan it, nor interrupt it by looking at email, news, or anything else.
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/writers-diary-21-yesterday-a-good-day-why/
#WritersDiary #FlowState #OnWriting #productivity #WritingProjects

Writing Diary #18: Elizabeth Gilbert on Elusive Genius
Yesterday I watched a TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert about elusive genius. I came to the talk via a Paul Krugman article asking if Taylor Swift is underpaid. (Short answer: she is). To build his argument, Krugman notes Swift is the real deal, as evidenced by this Tiny Desk concert. It’s good. Listen.

A few minutes in, Sw
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/writing-diary-18-elizabeth-gilbert-on-elusive-genius/
#WritersDiary #genius #OnWriting

Writer’s Diary #12: Finishing a Draft
Yesterday I finished a draft of the Introduction, printed it, and re-read it with an eye for editing. Now, with a draft, the question is what’s next? Bits are great. Parts suck. The chapter is unfinished. But, I need a change. The question for the diary: should I stay with it or should I go?

In my experience, writing is iterative work: slow
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/06/writing-diary-12-finishing-a-draft/
#WritersDiary #finishing #OnWriting #pausing

Für seinen Newsletter BÖSE BRIEFE hat Martin Krist mich zu einem kleinen Gespräch geladen. Außerdem sind mit im Paket wieder kriminelle Buchbesprechungen, Martins Rubriken »#onwriting« und »#truecrime« sowie ein spannendes Interview mit Frank Goldammer im »#krimikreuzverhör«.

https://timokuemmel.wordpress.com/

#martinkrist #kalkbrenner #kommissar #killer #berlin #krimi #thriller #suspense #spannung #buch #lesen #buchliebe #leseliebe #bücherliebe #illustration #mord #blut #leiche #truecrime

What makes a writer happy? A great series in The Guardian asks writers what brings them joy these days. This response from Helen Garner...wow.
Reading it makes me think that what would make me happy is being able to write like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/05/helen-garner-on-happiness-its-taken-me-80-years-to-figure-out-its-not-a-tranquil-sunlit-realm

#writingcommunity #HelenGarner #TheGuardian #writingcommunity #authors #author #onwriting #bookstodon #Australia #AustralianWriters #OzLit #AusLit #nonfictionauthors #nonfiction

#IndieAuthorNews #BusinessMusings #freenonfiction #OnWriting #copyright
Business Musings: Year in Review 2022: The Final Post (A Process Blog)

In some ways, 2020 and 2021 were straightforward years. 2020 was a long scream of a year, one in which we all were trying to survive against a tiny unseen foe. We got vaccines in 2021, and while that eased some of the worry, it didn’t make the worry...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/01/25/business-musings-year-in-review-2022-the-final-post-a-process-blog/

#IndieAuthorNews #Audio #BusinessMusings #CurrentNews #freenonfiction #OnWriting #AI #ArsTecnica #Audible #audio #ChatGPT
Business Musings: AI: The Year in Review Part 9

I used to train radio news announcers. I trained them how to read live and on air, a skill I learned myself while still in college. In 2021, I took a voiceover class from an impressive-as-hell studio here in Las Vegas, with the full intention that I...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/01/18/business-musings-ai-the-year-in-review-part-9/

#IndieAuthorNews #BusinessMusings #CurrentNews #freenonfiction #OnWriting #crowdfunding #DirectSales #Patreon
Business Musings: Direct: The Year in Review Part 8

On January 6, 2023, Michael W. Lucas made a rather important announcement on his blog. He wrote, in all caps: AMAZON IS NO LONGER MY BIGGEST INCOME SOURCE. It’s not that he added a consulting business to his writing income, or started doing in-person...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/01/11/business-musings-direct-the-year-in-review-part-8/

Thoughts on a Year

I stepped on old paths
Took a few detours
Got healed by the desert
Saved by the ocean
Washed clean by the rain
I wrote words
Completed an outline
Realized something was missing
Got stuck
Got free
Got stuck
Got free again
Like a cat playing with yarn.

#poem #writing #onwriting #amwriting #poetry #yearendlist

https://www.roannaflowers.com/

"As soon as I added more backstory and sidestory and aroundstory for all the places and things, January started to feel more like a living place." I enjoyed this #onwriting from @charliejane via @stephanieburgis
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/dont-just-create-one-big-story-build-a-mosaic-of/

#Writing #WritingCraft #CraftPost #amwriting #worldbuilding @bookstodon #writerscraft

@juliacreatesjoy personally, I'd recommend #StephenKing's #OnWriting. It's only partial #memoir; over half is a #howto on the craft. Highly insightful!

If you're going to LA ComicCon. https://comicconla.com
My panels:
- The Writers Process, Sunday Dec 4 at 10 AM
Room: 308 AB
- Building Your Author Brand, Sunday Dec 4 at noon
Room: 308 AB
#LAComicCon #writing #writer #onWriting

Übrigens: Interessanter Artikel des wie immer brillanten Cory @pluralistic Doctorow über das Schreiben von #ScienceFiction und weshalb wir als Autor_innen vielleicht mal umdenken sollten.
'cautionary tales' funktionieren ja ganz offensichtlich nicht. Irgendwer nimmt das IMMER als Anleitung.
Also sollten wir möglicherweise bessere Anleitungen #schreiben...

#onwriting #betterstories

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/cory-docotorow-sci-fi-intuition-pumps.html

Faulty Bulbs

These days, the darkness is coming faster. The evenings are cold and quiet. To do anything after work, I have to turn on all the lamps and flip the light switches to flood my home with light. 

Last week, a strange thing happened to the lamp in my kitchen. Going to make dinner, I went to the lamp and turned the switch, and it did not turn on. I tried again. I

http://lunastationquarterly.com/faulty-bulbs/

#2020isahellyear #onwriting #writinginspiration #writingstress

Pep Talk #3

Confession time: I haven't been writing. This should not come as a surprise to me, as I've done this same thing basically for two decades now, and yet it is. In my heart of hearts, I know I should be writing, but I can still somehow never really write. Not regularly. Not the way I imagine it - and what I imagine is not some romantic every-day-or-else-I'll-die-I'm-a-writer-see kind of way. (Nothin

http://lunastationquarterly.com/pep-talk-3/

#NaNoWriMo #onwriting #peptalk