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Sep

Get Published Episode 93 – Putting Experiences into Your Writing

Posted by: Michell in Get Published (Podcast)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately, about how my own experiences have affected my writing. I have looked at several of my better stories and I have been able to pick out things I’ve learned, people I have known and even different events in my life.

That is not to say I’ve recorded those things in the stories, but used the experiences to provide flavour to the writing. Definitely not word for word, but more in how they would cause my characters to act and the story to develop.

So, I decided it would be fun to have a few people join me to discuss this. As often happens, I was only able to line up the schedule with a couple people, specifically Jeff Hite and JR Murdoch. We met via Google Hangout and just talked about how experiences have affected our own writing.

This is the first time I’ve used Google Hangout in this way, so, the audio is not quite as crisp as I would like. Still the discussion is good so I hope you enjoy that portion of the show.

I’ve also read and reviewed John Campbell’s book, Dreadnaught, which is part of his new “The Lost Fleet, Beyond the Frontier” series. You will hear that review today.

That’s today’s episode. I hope you enjoy it.

Show Notes

00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 93 – Putting Experiences into Your Writing

Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published”

00:14 — Introduction – Get Published Episode 93 – Putting Experiences into Your Writing

Welcome to the show.

01:28 Promo: BabylonPodcast

02:31 -Tips and Typos

Mike reviews Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet, Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught

04:13 - Promo – Nutty Bites

04:43 — Get Published Episode 93 – Putting Experiences into Your Writing (continued)

Mike, Jeff Hite and JR Murdock talk about using personal experiences in writing.

47:03 - Promo - Flying Island Press

47:48 — Closing

Thank you for listening.

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Michell Plested - http://www.michellplested.com/

Jeff Hite - http://jeffhite.com/

JR Murdock - http://jrmurdock.com/

Babylon Podcast - http://www.babylonpodcast.com/

NIMLAS Studios/Nutty Bites - http://nimlas.org/blog/

Flying Island Press - http://flyingislandpress.com/

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Sep

Life…Not Much More to Say

Posted by: Michell in About Writing

I am learning never to expect things to go the way I plan. I was going to have my blog post up yesterday, but lo and behold, my hot water tank died yesterday, flooding my basement.

That meant my attentions were redirected to replacing said tank and drying out basement.

I’m sure you have all had your best laid plans fail because of events out of your control.

In my case, it has forced me to be a little less rigid in how I I respond to these interesting little roadblocks. I’ve got to be willing to let schedules be more transient (at least, those that can be) so I can keep things moving.

How do you deal with adversity? I would love to hear about your coping mechanisms.

Tags: Adversity, irreverent muse, Michell Plested

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Sep

Book Review: Dreadnaught (The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier, #1)

Posted by: Michell in Books, Irreverent Muse

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I fell in love with Jack Campbell’s series “The Lost Fleet” and knew at its conclusion that I would have to read “The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier” when it was published. I did not get the chance to start reading the series until just last week.

As was the case with his previous series, once I started reading the book, I couldn’t put it down. This series is SciFi Military reading candy at it best.

So, what do I like about it? Well, besides interesting characters, an intriguing mystery and well-written battles (not to mention lots of well thought out studies on human responses to emprisonment) it doesn’t have much to recommend it.

If you haven’t read anything about this series, it follows “Black Jack” Geary as he is once again sent into the breach, this time commanding the Alliance Fleet (by order, this time). Their mission? To go into alien space and learn everything they can about “The Enigma” race.

That is interesting enough, but Jack Campbell does a wonderful job putting that human element into his story. There are plots going on in the background, enemy CEO’s to deal with, and POW’s to deal with not to mention Fleet intrigues. It makes for a wonderful story.

I highly recommend this series to anyone. My only suggestion to you, if you haven’t already read any of the previous series, is to get out there right now and start at the very beginning. That will give you all of the rich background and pull you in as deeply as I have been.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1788176-michell-plested

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