Recent content by A. E. Lowan

Same for me. Didn't show up as a thread until just now. Writers do homework for a living, and thank heavens for the internet. When I hit a need to research something, I'll usually recalibrate and hit research mode right then. Probably part autism and part artifact of academia. But, I also once...

He's going to be somebody's body model, just not sure who, yet. ;) It's really, really funny you should say that. We've got a private group on FB called Lowan's Seahaven Afterparty, or just the Afterparty, and in our Spoiler Room chat I am sharing and discussing the body models and inspiration...

I still need to see the John Wick movies. I hear that they do a great job with storytelling and the fights are spectacular... and Keanu Reeves needs to call me. ;)

Going to add to that Save the Cat! both of them, are really fantastic resources on story structure and use of conflict. https://www.amazon.com/Save-Cat-Last-Screenwriting-Youll-ebook/dp/B00340ESIS/ I do love the smell of conflict in the morning. ;)

You say you've got good characters. That's where you find your plot. What do they want and why don't they have it? Conflict = Story. And from that we understand that Conflict is your story engine, but Character is how it's driven. I'd get into your characters skins and find out how they'll...

Gah. Concise is not my factory setting. :D But yes, absolutely. We deal with a stupid number of themes, but it's how the story lays so we're letting it run. Addiction - we have several characters and the ones around them who face the realities of addiction every day, because that's what you do...

This sounds very close to how loglines are conceived. Ours is... Found families, urban fantasy, polyamory, and a city on the edge of disaster being held together by an addicted wizard physician who was never meant to lead. Welcome to Seahaven. I've been playing a bit lately with the...

If this is the story you feel pulled to tell, then you need to write it. Ultimately, the only one who can decide if this is a good idea is you. I think it sounds ballsy, but before anyone can speak to this with any degree of authority, you need to write it. Ideas are cheap. I had three while I...

Okay, I'll bite. This is our fiction library, which resides in the living room. We have a big office, but it's not big enough for the whole physical library, and thank heavens for ebooks because there are at least this again in digital, so about 2000 more titles. A lot of our physical books are...

And then I posted all of it to the biggest group I'm in, 20Booksto50K, which has 77.5k members, all in publishing. Hope that's not the name she wants to do business with. When I say that publishing is an industry where reputation is everything because everyone knows everyone else and their...

Oh, oh I am so much worse than that. One FB group where I'm visible and contribute a lot is Fans of Urban Fantasy. Awesome sexy group, just a fantastic place to chat and find your tribe. Pretty sure our lady scammer found me through one of these groups. So, I'm pretty sure she's going to see...

Yeah, it's so very bad. 😜 And the scary part is how many writers will push aside all of the red flags and go charging in, anyway, just for any scrap of validation.

So, we get one or two messages from scammers a day, and I usually just wield the Ban Hammer and keep on with my day. But today I got wrapped up in a couple of things and forgot to lay down the ban. And then this happened. Hoping it comes up in something like order. I suck at this part. lol

That would be hysterical. 😜

Yeah, so in true Irish tradition, I kneecapped someone last night. Also in true Irish tradition, that someone was me. I innocently scooted my chair closer to my desk and drilled my right knee so hard into the solid wooden leg that it launched my baby ultrawide monitor off its stand and right at...