CHANNILLO
Series Description:
This is a series of tips for the beginning and not so beginning writer. Bits of advice based on nearly three decades of being a novelist, to help you take your storytelling skills to something far more than a simple creative writing course. Tips on characters, plotting, prose, world building, and far more.
Category/Genre(s): Essays/ColumnsUpdated: Weekly
Status: Inactive
Author Bio For Mark Anthony Tierno:
Southern California native Mark Anthony Tierno is a full-time novelist since 1996 and ghostwriter since 2010, with 36 novels of his own, including the Maldene series which clocks in at 13 novels and 5.2 million words, and Cyberdawn which is a 1.3-million word 5-book series. He holds a Masters degree in Physics, which often plays well with his creation of other worlds, but crossed with a poetic soul and unique descriptive voice. The result in a penchant for alien vistas, deeply woven plots, and worlds where magic freely flows but still obeys its own consistent laws. A bit of a workaholic when it comes to his novels, putting in an 8-10 hour writing session is not at all uncommon.
Mark loves crossing genres. For instance, Maldene starts off looking like high fantasy, but later in the series (Maldene II, now out in ebook under my own release) mixes in some Sci-Fi elements. Cyberdawn on the other hand is sort of the other way around along with a good dose of conspiracy. Then there’s Land of the Hive for which I was challenged to mix steampunk with a world of insects, the result being what he terms “bee-punk”. Other books involve other mixes of Sfi-Fi, Fantasy, and others. Let other people write the pure genres, Mark loves mixing it up.
Series Description:
This is a series of tips for the beginning and not so beginning writer. Bits of advice based on nearly three decades of being a novelist, to help you take your storytelling skills to something far more than a simple creative writing course. Tips on characters, plotting, prose, world building, and far more.
Category/Genre(s): Essays/ColumnsUpdated: Weekly
Status: Inactive
Author Bio For Mark Anthony Tierno:
Southern California native Mark Anthony Tierno is a full-time novelist since 1996 and ghostwriter since 2010, with 36 novels of his own, including the Maldene series which clocks in at 13 novels and 5.2 million words, and Cyberdawn which is a 1.3-million word 5-book series. He holds a Masters degree in Physics, which often plays well with his creation of other worlds, but crossed with a poetic soul and unique descriptive voice. The result in a penchant for alien vistas, deeply woven plots, and worlds where magic freely flows but still obeys its own consistent laws. A bit of a workaholic when it comes to his novels, putting in an 8-10 hour writing session is not at all uncommon.
Mark loves crossing genres. For instance, Maldene starts off looking like high fantasy, but later in the series (Maldene II, now out in ebook under my own release) mixes in some Sci-Fi elements. Cyberdawn on the other hand is sort of the other way around along with a good dose of conspiracy. Then there’s Land of the Hive for which I was challenged to mix steampunk with a world of insects, the result being what he terms “bee-punk”. Other books involve other mixes of Sfi-Fi, Fantasy, and others. Let other people write the pure genres, Mark loves mixing it up.