CHILDHOOD INSPIRATIONS FOR WRITERS...

I joined Sean Taylor's Author's Roundtable to talk about Childhood Inspirations. Give it a read at Sean's Blog.

Childhood Inspirations

We all know the axiom that "Writers read," but does that mean they were always avid readers? Let's find out, shall we...

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Thinking about this topic, I wanted to share three of my earliest childhood reading memories.

Encyclopedia Brown

The Snowbound Six

Han Solo's Revenge

These three books were very important to me growing up and there are still elements to my writing that I can trace directly back to each of them. 

To the writers and creators behind these titles I would just like to say a big thank you for helping to inspire my writing and imagination.

What books inspired you on your journey as a kid?

What books inspire you today?

Check out my and other author's answers here.

Bobby

EW... I STEPPED ON A LITERARY EASTER EGG!

Life In The Faster Lane

Our very own Bobby Nash joined the roundtable conversation over at Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog. This week’s topic is Filling Your Basket With Literary Easter Eggs and you can read it here.

This week's roundtable is a seasonal one (as suggested by my friend Lee Houston Jr.) -- Easter Eggs. You know the little bonuses that companies put on DVD as hidden extras, but what about the fun Easter Eggs we hide in our writing?

What Easter eggs (if any) have you inserted into your works?

To find out how Bobby and a host of other extremely talented writers answered this question, and more, you can read it here.

Why Do You Write... Pulp?

Bobby joined this week's roundtable interview at Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action.
This week's question is "Why Do You Write... Pulp?"


Read Bobby's answer, along with some of New Pulp's finest scribes answers at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-do-you-write-pulp.html?spref=tw

How Epic is Epic? -- Working with "Epic" Storylines

Bobby joined a group of writers for the latest roundtable discussion on Sean Taylor's Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog. This week’s topic: How Epic is Epic?
Harry Potter is perhaps one of the most recent breakout hits to be created specifically for a major, multi-book storyline that is categorized by a marketing label that actually (some might say "for once") does a excellent job of defining the scope of the works it promotes -- Epic.

You can't turn around in a bookstore without tripping of any number of multi-volume works, and the trend only seems to be growing and taking up more and more shelf space and online retail bytes.

But what makes a writer want to think beyond the scope of a simple story to create something so grandiose and far-reaching?

Well, you know us here at Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action. With our curiosity suitably piqued, we asked a few writers to see what they had to say.

Read Bobby’s thoughts on this topic at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-epic-is-epic-working-with-epic.html?spref=tw

An Issue Too Long? How Long Should a "Typical" Comic Book Arc Be?

Bobby joins the discussion at Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog along with writers Chuck Dixon, Erik Burnham, John Morgan Neal, Ken Janssens, Lee Houston Jr., Martheus Wade, and Sean Taylor. This week, the roundtable discussion looks at plotting comic book stories, length of an arc, and just how important it is to have a beginning, middle, and end to each story.

You can read all about it at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2012/02/issue-too-long-how-long-should-typical.html

This week's roundtable discussion comes from a reader who wrote in with the following:

If I can suggest a question for your question of the day -- How long should a 'typical' comic book story arc be? I ask for various reasons but the main one is that it used to take an issue or two to tell an origin story and I've read several new titles that are on issue 6 and not sure if they've finished any origin story arcs yet.

You can read the panel’s answers at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2012/02/issue-too-long-how-long-should-typical.html

Comics to Prose -- From Four Colors to Black Text

Bobby joined the pulp/comic book discussion over at Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog along with writers Van Allen Plexico, Lee Houston Jr., Ed Erelac, and Sean Taylor.

Check out Comics to Prose -- From Four Colors to Black Text at http://seantaylor.blogspot.com/.
Direct link: http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2012/02/comics-to-prose-from-four-colors-to.html