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Archives for October 2016

NaNoWriMoPrep: The Anatomy Of A Novel Part V: The Outline

October 31, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

Happy Halloween! Which means tomorrow is #NaNoWriMo. Oh my. Remember to breathe!  This is the last installment of NaNoWriMo prep. I actually did mine over the weekend, but there’s still enough time for tonight. The last thing to do – is the dreaded outline!  I actually break down my concept, close my eyes, think about […]

Filed Under: Anatomy Of A Novel, NaNoWriMo, Space Opera, Writing

Doomtown: Revisited

October 27, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

Someone asked me about all of the work I did for Doomtown: Reloaded, the card game from Alderac Entertainment that just met its demise for new production. This game has the coolest mechanics, worth checking out on the clearance racks of stores for sure. I wrote a LOT of words over the last couple of years, […]

Filed Under: Doomtown, Gaming, Writing

NaNoWriMoPrep: The Anatomy Of A Novel Part IV: Expanding the Big Idea

October 26, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

We’re only 6 days away from NaNoWriMo. Are you getting nervous yet? I know I am. I have a book dropping mid-November that I have to promote every day. I have edits of another book I’m working on, I’ve got my job which keeps me busy and two kids which keep me even busier than […]

Filed Under: Anatomy Of A Novel, NaNoWriMo, Space Opera, Writing Tagged With: nanowrimo, writing

Space… the Tiny Frontier

October 25, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

Military Science Fiction or Space Opera has had a long tradition in the gaming world. There are a LOT of crossover fans of both of these things. I remember as a youth I’d play privateer and escape velocity (still the best computer game of all time, I don’t need your stinking graphics or cut scenes! […]

Filed Under: Gaming, Space Opera, Writing

Top 5 Space Operas Of All Time

October 24, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

It’s not secret I’ve been thinking a lot about space opera recently. It’s my favorite thing to both read and write and I’ll be coming out with my first book in the genre in short order! In the meantime though, I’ve put together my list of my top five favorite all time space opera series. Any of […]

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NaNoWriMo Prep: The Anatomy Of A Novel Part III

October 21, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

Hello there, NaNoWriMo enthusiast! Whether you’re writing, thinking of writing, or just interested in how these books are made, you’ve made it to Part III of my Anatomy of a Novel blog series. This step is going to be the first part where I’m actually going to be doing the work along with anyone else […]

Filed Under: Anatomy Of A Novel, NaNoWriMo, Writing Tagged With: characters, nanowrimo, writing

Interview with Author S.D. Grimm

October 20, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

I don’t do a lot of guest posting on here, but from time to time I do have interest in promoting work that’s interesting to me. S.D. Grimm is the author of the forthcoming YA fantasy novel, Scarlet Moon, from Gilead Publishing. I’ve gotten to know her in the past through the writing community and […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: writing; new books; s.d. grimm; fantasy; YA;

NaNoWriMo Prep: The Anatomy Of A Novel Part II

October 19, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

Welcome to the second part of our NaNoWriMo series: The Anatomy of A Novel! Last time, on this blog, I mentioned that the next step would be to create some characters to play around in our idea and make a story go. But we’re not ready to do that yet. Before we can get to […]

Filed Under: Anatomy Of A Novel, NaNoWriMo, Writing Tagged With: NaNoWriMo; writing; space opera; science fiction; fantasy

The Five Books That Got Me Interested In Writing

October 18, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

I’m going to take a brief detour from my NaNoWriMo prep, as today I started thinking about when I became interested in writing, and what pushed me to it. Honorable mention has to go to the television show, Babylon 5, as reading those scripts opened my eyes to in depth story telling at a young […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: books, science fiction, writing

NaNoWriMo Prep: The Anatomy Of A Novel Part I

October 17, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

After my last post, I received a question asking: how much prep can you really do for NaNoWriMo? And that’s a really good question.  I’m aware that there’s different types of writers out there, some people just write and go, letting the flow take them where it needs to. This really isn’t for a writer […]

Filed Under: Anatomy Of A Novel, NaNoWriMo, Space Opera, Writing Tagged With: anatomy of a novel, nanowrimo, space opera, writing

A Book, NaNoWriMo and You!

October 15, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

I wrote a book over the last year or so (did a few drafts of it), and in the editorial process my editor, Jennifer Brozek, did actually take out all of my left-out oxford comma instances and put in commas, which she cannot do on my blog! Muahaha. Yes, I laugh in sinister manners over […]

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch (Through Season 2 Mini-Review)

October 7, 2016 by Jon Del Arroz Leave a Comment

  I’ve mentioned on various social media in the last couple months that I’ve been rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise, which was rebranded as simply “Enterprise” from the onset to try to appeal to a younger, hipper, I have no idea what they thought they were doing with either that or the theme song, now that […]

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