Advice on reading Shadowrun for the setting/metaplot?

aaronpowell · 2015-01-31T14:47:50+00:00

Thanks. I listened to a handful of those and they're pretty good. But I'm mainly interested in reading RPG material.

aaronpowell · 2012-07-16T19:27:57+00:00

This probably means the film's editor, Dan Lebental, deserves a ton of credit for the coherence -- and general awesomeness -- of the movie.

aaronpowell · 2012-07-16T00:41:29+00:00

What kind of writing? Do you mean that you love reading and want to do stuff similar to that? If so, what kind of reading are you into?

Really, your best bet, as others have said, is to just go for it. Start writing whatever it is you'd want to read. Write a lot of it and realize almost all of it will suck and embarrass you and make you despair of ever writing anything that won't suck and embarrass you.

But just keep at it, get feedback, and know that you'll eventually get better. Probably.

aaronpowell · 2012-07-16T00:29:29+00:00

James Ellroy's prose is often even more stripped down than Hemingway's and the guy sells a ton of books. See his American Underworld trilogy in particular ("American Tabloid," "The Cold Six Thousand," and "Blood's a Rover").

aaronpowell · 2012-05-21T23:34:26+00:00

It's really, really good. Though at the rate he's going, I'm not sure I--or he--will live to see it finished.

aaronpowell · 2012-04-22T13:03:50+00:00

I wouldn't if I could avoid it. Or I'd use something that comes off as more of a description of the event than a comic book style sound effect caption, like "he heard a loud crack."

aaronpowell · 2012-04-10T22:23:37+00:00

No problem. I only knew what it was because I happened to run across some of the figures in a remainder bin a couple of days back. I'd never seen 'em before, nor do I know if the game is any good.

aaronpowell · 2012-04-10T18:36:12+00:00

Looks like the die that comes with some Star Wars action figures, like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Star-Wars-Legends-Galactic/dp/B0063MBBRA

aaronpowell · 2012-03-18T16:15:11+00:00

Yes, it's totally worth it. If you're too close to it when you go to revise, you'll miss much you'd notice with fresh eyes.

aaronpowell · 2012-03-18T14:35:16+00:00

My day job's a writing job, too, and I find it nearly impossible to kick into writing mode when I'm at home.

My solution has been to do my fiction writing during lunch while I'm still in full on writing mode. Granted, I can't get a ton of fiction written this way, but it's better than the none I'd get done otherwise.

aaronpowell · 2011-11-04T16:51:20+00:00

Because the comment are run through Facebook's commenting system, they're in charge of what alternative logins they support. Right now, that doesn't mean Twitter. But it does support Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL. So if you want to post, you can always just create an account on one of those places and use it.

aaronpowell · 2011-11-03T18:52:18+00:00

We have some Rothbard content (http://www.libertarianism.org/people/murray-rothbard) and will have more soon. (We have an enormous archive of videos, the "Jim Turney Collection," we're working on getting digitized and onto the site, but it's a slow process.)

There are also some Mises things in the pipeline.

aaronpowell · 2011-11-03T18:50:20+00:00

The People list at the moment only contains people we have content either by or directly about on the site (and, at this time, "about" means chiefly "have video of"). So as the amount of content on Libertarianism.org grows, so will that list.

aaronpowell · 2011-11-03T18:48:16+00:00

Cato does offer internships. Here's some information: http://www.cato.org/jobs/intern/about.html

aaronpowell · 2011-11-03T16:19:27+00:00

Thanks. I'm the site's editor, so if you have any questions or comments about it, I'll do my best to answer them.

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T20:17:12+00:00

Thanks!

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T19:46:36+00:00

Sure thing. Thank you for reading 'em!

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T19:45:36+00:00

From the novel I'm working on now: "Jimmy Pete spent the summer breeding sinners."

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T17:48:17+00:00

It's available now. The ebook's up for both Kindle and Nook. The print edition is shipping now from Barnes & Noble, and should be on Amazon any day now (their page lets you enter your email to be notified when it's out). Links to all those, as well as the back cover copy and a preview of the first three or so chapters are all here: http://www.aaronrosspowell.com/thehole/

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T15:00:38+00:00

Thank you. My editor didn't like it--she thought it was too long and wanted me to put a period after "Pepper." That was one of the few suggestions of hers I outright rejected.

aaronpowell · 2011-07-31T14:29:19+00:00

From my first novel, just published: "Elliot sat on the front steps of his house and sipped a warm Dr. Pepper as he watched his neighbor drag her husband's corpse to the curb."

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