Jeremiah Tolbert

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Delaying a Project and a Good Review

My “pays the rent” free­lance project load is such that I’m going to have to hold off on my “pipe dreams of the video game indus­try” project right now.  I’m going to shoot to start it up in November now (although I’ll be squeez­ing read­ing in any­where I can). It’s embar­rass­ing to have made that […]

On Richness

Lately, I’ve been try­ing to iden­tify where my writ­ing really dif­fers from the stuff that’s great, great writ­ing. There are a hell of a lot of places, but I’ve fix­ated for a while now on this con­cept of rich­ness. The sto­ries that *really* blow me away exude infor­ma­tion and con­fi­dence. They are full of a […]

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 […]