Liana Brooks – Page 29

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Building a City from the (Under)Ground Up – a guest post by Brooke Johnson

Over the past few weeks I’ve blogged about the basics of an ecosystem, the four simple needs of an ecosystem, and apex predators. Today, Brooke Johnson is going to kick off a series of guest posts about civilization building. She’s going to bridge the gap from basic ecosystem to flourishing…

Quantity Creates Quality

Everyone knows the story of the pottery class divided in two groups… one was graded by how many pots they made, the other half was graded on how good the pot was. Inevitably, the students who were creating for quantity created better quality pots. Why? Because the more you do…

Sustainable Extra-Solar Living – Apex Predators and More! (repost)

Continuing last week’s post on sustainable living, definitions and why they pertain to writing. Biomass Majority Why you need these: This is my own term for all the creatures that fall in the center of the food web in an ecosystem. They aren’t at the bottom, but they aren’t at the…

Another Fight

Someone asked me today what they should do if life is just too overwhelming. When you hurt, and depressed, and you’ve been kicked down so many times by life that you can’t remember not being in the mud… I’m not sure I have an answer for that. It’s a good…

Sustainable Extra-Solar Living (repost)

A few weeks back we set the definitions for an ecosystem. Now it’s time to look at some of the elements that you need to make a self-sustained society, city, or planet. Keep in mind that this is for writing purposes. As the author, you’re creating these elements. You can…

Sustainable Extra-Solar Living… kicking it off with some definitions!

Engineer: I need an ecosystem. Biologist: Okay, that shouldn’t be to hard. E: It shouldn’t, but the one I bought on e-bay is just a plastic box, there’s nothing organic in it…. B: You tried to buy an ecosystem? Do you know what an ecosystem is? E: Um, well, in…

CONVERGENCE POINT Flash Sale!!!

We are six weeks from the release of DECOHERENCE and my publisher has announced a flash sale for CONVERGENCE POINT so everyone who needs to can buy it and catch up. The sale ends AUGUST 3, which isn’t much time and I know… no notice! But, the book is 99¢,…

Impulse Buy Book of the Week: PICKUP NOTES by Jane Lebak

Playing viola in her string quartet is the only joy in Joey’s life. It’s certainly not her job as a tollbooth operator or her toxic family. But there’s not a lot of money in classical music, and a whole lot of competition. HARRISON: the fearless first violinist who’s always driven…

The Days I Forgot

We were at the zoo. It was pushing 80 during a record-breaking heatwave in Alaska. The house has no air conditioning, the kids were going crazy, and the zoo had popcorn, pokestops, two pokemon gyms, and some new cygnets that have grown a lot this week. So we went… chilling…

Who Do You Write For? – a guest post by Bishop O’Connell

As writers we often have one eye on our intended audience as we write, even if it isn’t conscious. Like a lot of art, if you ask a writer about his book, either you or he will compare it to something else: “It’s Harry Potter meets A Tale of Two…