Mar 29, 2019
Would any modern writer willingly go back to the days of typewriters? I know a few who would, but the rest of us prefer to stick with computers. They beat typewriters in terms of speed, ease of use, and efficiency. But should we completely discard type- or...
Mar 23, 2019
Have you ever heard about pen-and-paper roleplaying games? We’re talking Warhammer, Dungeons and Dragons, Cyberpunk, 7th Sea, and the like. A group of people sitting at a table and telling a story together. The game master (GM) serves as the narrator, the players play...
Mar 15, 2019
What are your writing dreams? To get published? To earn a full time living from your writing? To see your book on a shelf in a bookstore? Or are you one of those rare individuals who write for pleasure alone? Whatever the answer, you might be setting yourself up for...
Mar 8, 2019
Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/11-Turn-Worldbuilding-Into-Stories.mp3 With enough practice, everyone can come up with new compelling ideas and whole worlds nobody else had visited yet. You can find a thousand great ideas...
Mar 1, 2019
Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/08-Original-Story-Ideas.mp3 Original story ideas set the best writers apart from the rest of the crowd. But a great paradox of fiction is that while our readers like to search for fresh and...
Feb 22, 2019
Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05WritersBlock.mp3 Writers can sometimes… They occasionally– That is, writers as a species– no– as professionals, they can sometimes… Aw, crap! So,...