Comments for The Backwoods Bard http://backwoodsbard.com High Tech Storytelling from a Low Tech Guy Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on You’ll Get There by Deb E http://backwoodsbard.com/2013/04/youll-get-there/#comment-45 Deb E Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:45:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=2107#comment-45 Yep. I have to remind myself daily, too!

]]> Comment on Recharging Your Writer Battery by Rose Gonsoulin http://backwoodsbard.com/2013/02/recharging-your-writer-battery/#comment-44 Rose Gonsoulin Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:04:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1888#comment-44 Great commentary on the non-financial rewards of getting a good read out there. I especially liked how you connected the dots from marketing to a mass audience to finding the reader who loves your work.

]]> Comment on Recharging Your Writer Battery by Eric Bahle http://backwoodsbard.com/2013/02/recharging-your-writer-battery/#comment-43 Eric Bahle Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:30:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1888#comment-43 Thanks, Deb!  A lot of writers in the past were famously anti-social or outright hermits.  I suppose there’s a certain romance to that, but I’m more in the just-folks school of thought.  You’re folks, I’m folks, we’re all folks and folks is folks.  And if folks are nice enough to read your story and say something nice, you can sure be nice enough to say thanks.

]]> Comment on Recharging Your Writer Battery by Deb E http://backwoodsbard.com/2013/02/recharging-your-writer-battery/#comment-42 Deb E Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:04:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1888#comment-42 Excellent work! I love (positive) feedback, too. There’s nothing better than finding out that those characters I so lovingly crafted are loved by others. That’s the best compliment ever! Enjoy the buzz and make the most of it! You don’t want to let your fans down now, do you? (o:  You have fans!

]]> Comment on How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing by Eric Bahle http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/12/how-fighting-prepared-me-for-writing/#comment-41 Eric Bahle Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:55:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1570#comment-41 Weird West is basically Wild West + Something Weird so you get to play with the tropes which is part of the fun.  You can run the gamut from plugging your weirdness into a “straight” Western a la Billy the Kid meets Dracula, all the way to a fully mythologized world like Stephen King’s Gunslinger.  Mike Resnick has some that lean more Steampunk, complete with clockwork “soiled doves”.  Sounds like Wild West with magic definitely qualifies!

]]> Comment on How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing by Deb E http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/12/how-fighting-prepared-me-for-writing/#comment-40 Deb E Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:30:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1570#comment-40  Well, I call mine “Fantasy with a taste of Steampunk”, but I like the Wild West more than Victorian England, so mine is set in a world more like that (and late 1800s New Zealand… but well, that makes sense for a Kiwi writer to do…). I haven’t read anything in Weird West, yet (but I will be reading yours!), so I don’t know what “tropes” are standard, but basically mine is Wild West with magic… so I guess it’s a little weird.

Basically, I’m really glad the world of publishing is expanding, because I’d hate to try to peddle mine to a standard publisher – I’d lose just on trying to categorise it. I’ve been lucky enough to find a small imprint willing to give it a go…

My first book doesn’t delve too far into the weird, but I’m getting there with the second!

I really do appreciate your posts about your experiences. I’ll know who to come to for military-related writing questions (o: Much more useful than my biology background…

]]> Comment on How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing by Eric Bahle http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/12/how-fighting-prepared-me-for-writing/#comment-39 Eric Bahle Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:58:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1570#comment-39 Thanks for the kind words, Deb.  I appreciate it.  How does your own work creep into Weird Western territory?  I’m always curious what others are working on.

]]> Comment on How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing by Deb E http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/12/how-fighting-prepared-me-for-writing/#comment-38 Deb E Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:11:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1570#comment-38 Awesome post. Thank you. As a fellow writer with no fighting experience, I really appreciate you sharing those experiences–immediately I can see how they might apply to some of my characters.
But, beyond that, we all need to be reminded how to handle those knocks, and every new perspective adds something to the discussion, particularly in the different experiences they bring to the table.
Oooh.. you write Weird Westerns, too (probably more so than my own work, mine’s still evolving in that direction)… added to my GR to-read list. I have a couple of other books to get through but look forward to giving these a go!

]]> Comment on The Creative Community by How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing | The Backwoods Bard http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/06/the-creative-community/#comment-37 How Fighting Prepared Me for Writing | The Backwoods Bard Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:21:03 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=19#comment-37 [...] written about the community out there for indie authors.  Take advantage of it.  Join some discussion groups and talk to [...]

]]> Comment on What Do You Do With A Broken Story? by Eric Bahle http://backwoodsbard.com/2012/11/what-do-you-do-with-a-broken-story/#comment-36 Eric Bahle Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:36:00 +0000 http://backwoodsbard.com/?p=1468#comment-36 True enough, but I’m afraid I don’t have the Professor’s patience.

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