Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Ten Years Of Fantasy Authors Handbook

TEN YEARS OF FANTASY AUTHOR’S HANDBOOK I can’t 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 it’s exhausting to remember a time when I didn’t have that weekly commitment. How do you look again on ten years of a weblog like this? Let’s 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 you’ll 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 Author’s 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 Author’s Handbook was 2015, but I hold plugging alongside. The hottest single post is “What Makes a Monster Scary?” from July 8, 2014 by a margin of 10,000 views over second place finisher “How Long Should Your Fantasy Novel Be?” from March 31, 2015. The last place finisher is “Moving Forward With Backward” from November 28, 2017, so you need to click on on that one and provides it some a lot needed love. It’s all the time fascinating to see how people get to Fantasy Author’s Handbook, and a few of the search terms is usually a bit on the oddball facet. The all time search term champion is “the prisoner,” beating “galley slaves” by 77, leaving “philip athans” in third place, just bar ely above “galley slave.” At the underside of the listing? Four individuals received me by typing “bee gees little brother” into Google. Still, the variety of totally different variations of “galley slave” is disturbing. The post that obviously refers to is concerning the origin of the time period “galley” 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 that’s 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 Author’s Handbook has sent someone to Amazon.com 5752 times. If you haven’t 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 haven’t 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 there’s something I haven’t coated and also you’re curious to listen to my tackle it, remark at ASK PHIL and let’s see what we will do. What more could there be for me to say? What inside info can I spill on Fantasy Author’s 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. I’ve 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 Author’s Handbook is one thing I do each Tuesday morning, and barring some world-altering tragedy like my untimely demise (Heaven forfend!) I’ll hold posting each Tuesday. At this level I’m 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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