Writing

Don’t Be a Writer, Be a Creator

Posted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez on August 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm

And by independence, I mean making a sustainable living, not just self-publishing your book via Amazon or Lulu or Smashwords and declaring yourself an “indie”.

On Inception, The Passage, and Writing in The Obama Era

Posted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez on July 19, 2010 at 10:59 am

The weakness of “It’s all a dream” — why we hate that, why we feel cheated when narratively anything is revealed to be all a dream — is that you’ve just asked me to spend so much time and emotional capital investing in the stakes of this, and you’ve now swept it away with the [...]

On Transmedia and Fan Fiction

Posted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez on June 4, 2010 at 12:11 pm

For transmedia novelists (and publishers) to retain creative control will require more than a repurposing of content. This might give a ‘taste’ of what transmedia can ‘do’, but for it to work on all levels it must be intrinsically built in and not bolted on. –Alison Norrington, Transmedia Requires New Breed of Writers, Publishers Ever [...]