This week’s best thing: Readercon!
Mentions:
Hamilton in Baltimore
Fast Color movie
Sycorax’s Daughters – Anthology of Black women horror writers
“What Screenwriters Get Wrong About Outlines” – video with Alan Watt
 
 
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This week’s best thing: I have an outline and started writing Earthsinger Chronicles book 4!!
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This week’s best thing(s):
Honorable Mention: Backstreet Boys subway sing-along
Winner: Watching Shaka Zulu for the first time
Mentions:
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle – https://amzn.to/2FJq7a4

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This week’s best thing: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Mentions:
Story Grid article: Discover Your Story’s Core 
Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
Namesake by Kate Stradling
Books with a Past – Maryland indie bookstore
 
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Storytelling with prerequisites, concrete character goals, and the ever elusive ending.
This week’s best thing: Rocketman movie! Go see it! https://tickets.rocketman.movie/ (I hope Taron Edgerton gets an Oscar nom!)
Mentions:
Beyond the Screenplay podcas…

Fast drafting, writing rituals, and a mini rant on naming your fantasy months.
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” —Terry Pratchett
This week’s best thing: New York Times’s Tiny Love Stories – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/styl…

Peeling the layers back on character and plot as I prepare to fast draft next week. Also, The Matrix turns 20 this year and I wax philosophical on my Matrix tattoo.
This week’s best thing: New music from Sleater-Kinney! Video directed by Miranda July!
Me…

An overview of my first week plotting book 4 in my fantasy series. 
This week’s best thing: Plotting! Perhaps my favorite part of the writing process.
Mentions:

Michael Hauge character development – This article is what started it all for me in terms of…