We talk about what’s happening in our writing life, which
leads us to talk at some length about that old planner vs pantser debate. David
has discovered he really doesn’t like planning.
Alan is a pantser too, but both of us have various ways to
organise and plan what is happening in the book we’re working on. Alan talks
about his spreadsheet timeline method.
Alan talks about how his plans can change in the process of
writing them and how he likes to allow that and not be restricted by a strong
outline.
David talks about characters leading the story and staying
in control of what’s happening.
David talks about some new releases he’s excited about,
including his latest Dane Maddock book, Buccaneer.
There’s also a new Gryphonwood horror anthology out now for
99c - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/248571
Alan and Dave talk about Dave’s story in the new anthology,
and how the process of Alan beta-reading the story changed it for the better.
This leads us to talk about the structure and writing
process of a short story.
Alan talks about his story in the Dark Places 2 anthology, “The
Seven Garages Of Kevin Simpson”.
We go on talk at length about Amazon and some of the things
happening at the moment.
We start with the case of Amazon wiping a customer’s Kindle
while she slept.
We talk about the nature of the rental agreement which is a
Kindle purchase.
We go on to talk about the latest Amazon reviewing debacle
where Amazon have been removing “competitive” reviews.
Here’s the blog post Alan read from: http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/et-tu-amazon.html#.UKGO_YZSljc
These things highlight Amazon’s model and how it’s flawed.
We move on, strangely, to talk briefly about Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s announcement to make a new Conan film.
Alan talks about the horror of The Expendables 2. What a
terrible movie.
I'm afraid that bit with David saying he can always spot fake reviews is a case of the toupee fallacy (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy) -- a believable fake review will not be seen as a fake review by definition. Although it is safe to assume that most fake reviewers aren't good enough to write a believable fake review...
ReplyDeleteTrue. I don't recall what point I actually intended to make, but sounds like I overstated. I do feel that I'm good at discerning helpful from unhelpful and I'm not overly swayed by good or bad reviews. I usually make up my mind from the synopsis and sample. If I'm unsure, I look at the three star reviews and weed out the ones that don't give any analysis.
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