Jeremiah Tolbert

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On Types of Writers Block

When I first began writ­ing in earnest, I didn’t believe in writer’s block.  You know how it is.  When you’re com­pletely lack­ing in self-consciousness about your works, it’s much eas­ier to get things done.  Doubt hasn’t entered the pic­ture then, nor a dozen other ever-present con­cerns, experience-driven instincts, and mild pho­bias that you develop with […]

10 Ways to Have a More “Interesting” Convention Experience

I am not attend­ing WorldCon (AKA Anticipation)  this year.  Last year was great, and I met a lot of really inter­est­ing new peo­ple, and got to meet some peo­ple in the flesh for the first time like John Joseph Adams (whose col­lec­tion The Living Dead was nom­i­nated for a World Fantasy Award this week!  Congratulations […]

Why You Should Apply to Attend LaunchPad Next Year

TheLaunchPad Astronomy Workshop has been held three times now, each sum­mer in Laramie, Wyoming. This project is the brain­child of Jim Verley and astronomer/SF writer Mike Brotherton. The goal of the work­shop is to help expand the audi­ence for sci­ence lit­er­ate fic­tion and other pop­u­lar endeav­ors. This year, we not only had sci­ence fic­tion writers […]

Keeping an Ideas File

When I first started writ­ing seri­ously, I kept a lit­tle text file on my desk­top where I would rapidly jot down ideas for the premises of sto­ries. Eventually, this turned into a note­book that I tried and failed to carry around. Then it turned into a col­lec­tion of ran­dom doc­u­ments on Google Docs. It’s current […]