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Announcing the Home for Fiction Patreon Page

October 26, 2020

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Note: Years have passed, things regarding Home for Fiction have changed, and so the text below is irrelevant. If you discovered it accidentally, consider it purely a snapshot of history.

Quite some time ago, I posted a survey with some questions related to premium content for Home for Fiction. It took me a while to ponder on it and decide on the details, but here it is: the Home for Fiction Patreon page!

Take everything you know about the Home for Fiction blog and supercharge it. The Home for Fiction Patreon page offers premium content such as:

early access to blog post drafts.
writing resources and media (tools, checklists, tutorials, presentations, programs, etc).
workshop courses, where you can try my writing tips with exercises.
personal feedback on your own novel or short story.
…and more!

But there’s also an important thing to keep in mind…

home for fiction patreon — “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” — George Orwell

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New Book Announcement (with a Twist in the Plot)

May 19, 2020

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Yes, I have a new book to announce; yes, there is a twist in the plot. But no, there is no twist in the book’s plot! In fact, the book has no plot.

It doesn’t have characters, either.

The twist in the plot in announcing this new book is that it’s a nonfiction book.

I don’t know what kind of demon drove me – refer to George Orwell’s quote decorating the main page of Home for Fiction – but I decided to write a complete guide on writing quality fiction.

The result – somewhat anticlimactically, after the previous sentence – is The Complete Writer: a Guide to Writing Better Fiction.

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The Answers to Your Questions: Contest Results

May 6, 2020

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No, in case you thought this post contains answers to all your (existential) questions, I’ll disappoint you. It only contains my answers to the questions you asked me for the Home for Fiction contest we recently had; contest results, in other words!

I got quite a few questions – thank you all! – perhaps even a bit more than I expected. In case you missed the whole thing, the contest worked so that you could ask me a question related to my writing, the blog, etc., and then I would pick the five most interesting ones to answer. From these, I’d randomly pick three that would win Amazon gift cards, valued at $10, $20, and $30.

Well, as I said, it’s contest results time! Before we proceed to the answers, a couple of notes:

Since I shared the contest page with friends and acquaintances online, I inevitably got questions from people I already knew. This did not affect my choice of questions…
… and as for the Amazon gift cards, the process was entirely automated. I coded a JavaScript-based name picker to randomly get three names. If you’re interested in its details, the code is available at the end of this post.

With these in mind, let’s take a look at the contest results!

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