Happy Holidays everyone! As a special treat, I am putting the first episode of my new podcast project into the feed. GalaxyBillies is the story of five hillbillies who are kidnapped by a semi-sentient starship. To say they take the universe by storm would be a MAJOR understatement. I was checking my notes a couple days ago when I was finishing the first episode and I realized I first had the story idea almost a year ago. It has taken a while to germinate, but I’m very happy with episode one (numbered episode 0). Have a listen and let me know what you think. If you like it, leave a comment and maybe feedback on iTunes. If you don’t, please […]
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Holiday Brain
I only just realized I hadn’t yet written my weekly post. How did that happen? I’m always thinking about my writing and podcasting, including this blog. I made a commitment to myself a long time ago to put out my weekly post without fail. Yet somehow I almost forgot it this week. What gives? I can only guess that the holiday break has distracted me more than I usually am. That and the new project, and the old project and… well, you get the idea. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I AM going to take a few days to relax, but I have a special surprise coming out tomorrow. Watch the site and the ‘Get Published’ feed […]
Read morePutting Yourself Out There
Whomever said “Without Risk, there can be no reward” was on to something. It is a saying that applies in spades to we writers. We can write as much as we want, but until we actually let someone see it, we have no idea if it is good, bad or indifferent. Indeed, I would argue that without making it available for critique we writers will never really grow in our craft. That sort of flies in the face of the “Practice makes perfect” mantra, but without feedback, we may get stuck writing the same stuff over and over. All that can do is solidify any mistakes we are already making. Granted, as we continue to write we probably start to […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 20 – Lynda Williams talks Writing
Welcome to episode 20 and Happy Anniversary to ‘Get Published’. I never expected to hit 20 shows this soon but it has been a lot of fun getting here. I am very happy to have Lynda Williams on the show today. Lynda is married with three children and works by day as an educational technologist at the University of Northern B.C. where she oversees an ever-changing pack of student employees in her web development lab. Lynda writes science fiction set in the “Okal Rel Universe” Enjoy. Get Published, Episode 20 – Lynda Williams talks Writing Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published, Episode 20 – Lynda Williams talks Writing Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of […]
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