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David Niall Wilson's Blog
November 6, 2009
- Just a sort of quick, humorous note. I am writing a novel with supernatural creatures in it. It was carefully outlined, and I knew going in pretty much exactly what I was going to write…except…I didn’t know that there was a werewolf in the story. What happened is simple, and worth noting. I set up a situation in the novel where one of the supporting characters needs something from my ...
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November 5, 2009
- I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. The bookstore is a magic place...I wrote a story about that once.Now they serve a purpose that ...
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November 3, 2009
- This is just a quick note to report on the progress of my Nanowrimo novel for the year, "Heart of a Dragon." I've been working on it for three days now, and have just passed the ten thousand word point. It's a good start. I always suggest that people binge write at the beginning to get a buffer zone built up for the days when writing just isn't possible. As usual I have set up a ...
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October 28, 2009
- This one’s gotten pretty old, His hair is thin, he reeks of mold, He wears a hat upon his head, So none will see his “do” is dead, Ten and forty years have passed, Half a century’s been surpassed, And still, he’s smiling, wonder why? Well, hell, he lived and didn’t die! His books have made it to the shelves, The better to present themselves To readers, so his leaky mind Can now infest ...
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October 21, 2009
- I grew up in small town Illinois. That was my childhood. There were tractor pulls, pep rallies where they actually piled up wood and had bonfires, as often as not stealing that wood from the barns, outhouses, and sheds of surrounding farms. We lived in the middle of Neil Gaiman's amazing novel "American Gods," playing basketball against the boys from Paris, Illinois. We bailed ...
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October 14, 2009
- I thought Stephen King had slipped a cog when he had Roland, The Gunslinger, and his motley crew of travelers, come upon the Emerald City. As it turns out, he's the King for more reasons than one, because he realized what I still had to learn...that there are a lot of levels to iconic stories and you can get a lot of mileage out of them. His version of Oz, including the "ruby cowboy ...
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July 29, 2009
- When I finished my first novel, "This is My Blood," I was floating around on the ocean on board the USS Bainbridge. The novel was an expansion of my novelette, "A Candle in the Sun." I'd been told it needed to be expanded by a Canadian publisher and expert on vampire literature named Robert Eighteen-Bisang. Robert told me he was putting together a publishing company, and ...
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June 12, 2009
- You read that right. Ambergris Films has given me the go-ahead to up the ante on the contest. It’s a very simple thing. Buy one of the two Killer Green t-shirts, either the Peyote Slim’s shirt, or the Killer Green Crew shirt. When it arrives, put it on and get your camera. Be creative. Take a digital photo and e-mail it to the contest. You can mail one photo for every shirt ...
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May 7, 2009
- Writing In Character - You Have to Be There By David Niall Wilson • May 4, 2009 • Comments (11) [Edit] This past weekend I bought a book just for idea hunting. The book is titled 101 Things Everyone Should Know about Science and it covers, in very short bursts, interesting scientific tidbits. One that I read early on in the book is that all Navel Oranges ...
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May 4, 2009
- Every now and then I get the urge to speak my mind. Those of you who read my various columns and blogs across the net are probably aware of this. I’ve talked about books and publishing before, but looking back I think a lot has changed since the last time I did so, so I believe I’ll take a stab at the state of things, as I see it . . . The economy is in the crapper. There’s no doubt of ...
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April 30, 2009
- I've been feeling a little stagnant lately. Partly this is due to two ghost-writing projects I'm doing, both biographies and both about very different men...keeping them separated in m mind and giving both my full attention in their turn has not been easy. My own work has been relegated temporarily to the cracks between words, and those cracks have not been particularly wide of late. Anyway, ...
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April 29, 2009
- I've been doing a series of readings of very short stories - no longer than five or six minutes apiece - and posting them on my main website. I have now imported that audio to my Red Room author's page for your enjoyment (assuming you enjoy such things). These are very short stories based on Internet Emoticons - I have (so far) read my stories based on the standard smiley face, the cheesy grin, ...
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April 28, 2009
- If there is one thing I dread in the writing of a novel, it’s that point where I have to try and put together the material used to sell it. This means I either have to clean up and revise my working outline into a form that is both legible and in alignment with the story as I actually wrote it, or I have to create a synopsis. On the surface it would seem easier to write a synopsis than to ...
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April 27, 2009
- Since I posted the final scene of the odd, noirish pseudo-sci-fi thriller Killer Green here last night, I thought it was about time for a recap. On the 27th of February, I was in Baltimore scoping out the office that has since become my company’s first outlying workspace. I stayed at the Embassy Suites, and let me tell you…this project might not have happened otherwise. Between the ...
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March 19, 2009
- I’ve been working slowly on building readership for this site. It hasn’t been live very long, but I’ve had days with upwards of 20k hits, so I must be doing something right. I seem to have gotten into a lot of discussions lately over short cuts and “tools” that are supposed to dramatically increase your “traffic,” and I wanted to get some thoughts down. Meaningless traffic ...
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