John guests on Writing Excuses season 3 episode 19

Here’s the third episode I recorded with the Writing Excuses guys. In the first podcast we talked about putting and not putting ourselves in our writing and making characters who don’t all sound like the author. In the second, we talked about how to not repeat yourself as an author. In this one, I shared some basics

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Another positive review for Servant of a Dark God: Kirk Shaw of Covenant Communications

This review of Servant of a Dark God comes from Kirk Shaw, a fiction editor who works for Covenant Communications which is a part of Deseret Book. I think he points out something interesting about how I structured the story. This is no simple epic. Brown has essentially written in three major plots: (1) the Dark

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