Ezra Wilkinson

Yeah, I liked For the Temple too. Beric the Britain was pretty good as well, those are the two I really remember.

Not to say I don’t like his stuff; I’ve really enjoyed a number of his writing. It’s just that the more I read, the more patterns I see, and the less enjoyable it is over time.

Yeh . . . but all Henty books follow a very specific plot pattern with very similar characters who generally don’t have archs, and the key to any battle fought in any one of his books is DON’T BREAK FORMATION, and there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Any marketing these days has almost got to be as creative as the book itself. The more formulaic the marketing, the less impact it seems to have, at least in my experience.

This also has to be paired with low expectations. Self-published books very rarely make lots of money, so you can’t quit your day job. And that’s okay, especially at this…[Read more]

D’aaaaaaawwwww

No no no, you missed it, stay with me here a second!

You laughed.

You, just you.

Somewhere in the vast scheme of things, as God formed you in your Mother’s womb, and saw everything you would be and mean and say and do, he gave you the potential to find joy in a picture of kittens wearing bonnets.

Isn’t that amazing?

Isn’t it amazing that God…[Read more]

@Rosey: BUT IT MADE YOU LAUGH! Did you see that? Did you see it? IT CAUSED LAUGHTER! The God of the universe created the smallest elements that make up the flesh of an amoeba and the largest gargantuan balls of nuclear fire in the cosmos but he stopped for a moment and decided that laughter would be a good thing.

That’s a spiritually…[Read more]

Miss Emma, I have spent a great deal of time doing things for the grander purpose, and a great deal of time doing things for fun. You would not believe how often the two intertwined, and even turned out to serve the opposite purpose more entirely than they did the original.

Now I may know something is wrong, and do it, and then I have done…[Read more]

^with Kittens.

Do kittens make it better?

It’s less gross and more adorable with kittens.

Okay. So it’s our heart that matters.

So if you true heart attitude is like, “I totes my goats wanna write a great Christian story but I wants to do it in space with vampires and Amish people and stuff”, then we’re all chill?

@Rosey: There’s certainly less gross things to write about, I’ll give you that one.
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@Rosey: There’s certainly less gross things to write about, I’ll give you that one. 😛

Don’t all stories run the risk of wrong interpretation?

But what if their connotation is wrong.

This is very interesting stuff.

Platform building is something I’ve wanted to research more fully. Advertising is something I’m also playing around with. The problem, as far as I see it, is that advertisers and people advertising try to mimic previous marketing techniques, and it doesn’t work the second time. Your marketing campaign really has…[Read more]