Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Ten Years Of Fantasy Authors Handbook
TEN YEARS OF FANTASY AUTHORâS HANDBOOK I canât imagine I forgot such a major milestone in my writing life, but the tenth birthday of this weblog got here and went on June 15, marking an uninterrupted decade of weekly posts on the subject of writing fantasy, science fiction, horror, and fiction generally. In some methods, as with all anniversary, it looks as if just yesterday that I started this up, and at the same time itâs exhausting to remember a time when I didnât have that weekly commitment. How do you look again on ten years of a weblog like this? Letâs begin initially, which is the conception of the factor within the first place, which was to coincide with the discharge of The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction, which I was then ending up. If you scroll through the index youâll see that a lot of the early posts are parts of textual content that was minimize from that e-book; and the complete interviews with authors, editors, and agents who had been quoted within the guide. As of this morning Fant asy Authorâs Handbook has loved 397,658 views, with 2152 views on one of the best day. Readers have left 1997 comments, I actually have 837 followers, and have written 522 posts. Surely as a result of I ended up on a number of best lists, the largest 12 months for Fantasy Authorâs Handbook was 2015, but I hold plugging alongside. The hottest single post is âWhat Makes a Monster Scary?â from July 8, 2014 by a margin of 10,000 views over second place finisher âHow Long Should Your Fantasy Novel Be?â from March 31, 2015. The last place finisher is âMoving Forward With Backwardâ from November 28, 2017, so you need to click on on that one and provides it some a lot needed love. Itâs all the time fascinating to see how people get to Fantasy Authorâs Handbook, and a few of the search terms is usually a bit on the oddball facet. The all time search term champion is âthe prisoner,â beating âgalley slavesâ by 77, leaving âphilip athansâ in third place, just bar ely above âgalley slave.â At the underside of the listing? Four individuals received me by typing âbee gees little brotherâ into Google. Still, the variety of totally different variations of âgalley slaveâ is disturbing. The post that obviously refers to is concerning the origin of the time period âgalleyâ for a pre-press copy of a guide, a post from all the way in which again on February 9, 2010. But one thing tells me thatâs not what most people have been looking for. The overwhelming majority of you (107,386) got here via varied search engines like google and yahoo (which means Google, really) with Facebook and Twitter neck and neck at 6539 and 6268 respectively, however I owe a debt of gratitude to thewritelife.com for 4898 referrals. And talking of referrals, Fantasy Authorâs Handbook has sent someone to Amazon.com 5752 times. If you havenât scrolled through the INDEX web page, this may be a good time to start out. There may be a few of those 522 posts you havenât seen yet which may help you out or amuse you or get you considering. And check out all these links off to the proper aspect of the web page, perhaps give a number of of those a look-see, too. And if thereâs something I havenât coated and also youâre curious to listen to my tackle it, remark at ASK PHIL and letâs see what we will do. What more could there be for me to say? What inside info can I spill on Fantasy Authorâs Handbook after ten years? How about this: It proves that it ispossible to commit to an ongoing writing project and to make a behavior of it. Iâve posted one thing right here, religiously, every Tuesday for a decade and running, and the overwhelming majority of those Tuesdays, I had no thought what I was going to put in writing about until I sat down that Tuesday morning. There are only a handful of instances that a post was written ahead of time, and perhaps solely two or three times that I scheduled something to publish forward of time. Fantas y Authorâs Handbook is one thing I do each Tuesday morning, and barring some world-altering tragedy like my untimely demise (Heaven forfend!) Iâll hold posting each Tuesday. At this level Iâm unsure I even know tips on how to stop. But in any case, thank youfor reading, thank you for writing, and see you next week! â"Philip Athans The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction About Philip Athans Congrats on such a great achievement. 10 years is big!
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