Back in November, I considered writing a post about crowdfunding after jumping on board for a Steampunk series called The World of Steam led by Matt King. That wasn’t the first project I ever backed. I also backed a zombie documentary as well as Amanda Palmer‘s record-breaking Kickstarter that she recently talked about in TED Talks. On Indiegogo, I backed a friend’s production called The Interview. Today, I backed The Veronica Mars Movie Project, which is set to be the biggest Kickstarter project so far – it reached its $2 million goal in less than 24 hours with less than 32,000 backers (the funny promotion video done by Veronica Mars alums with Kristen Bell is worth just checking it out). Now, I’m not Ms.…
Jenn Falls – My Writing Journey
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So I have a confession. Remember when I posted not one but two blog posts about overcoming Writer’s Block? While I will not dispute that they have some good pointers in them, I have to tell you the truth. I walked myself back into that jail cell and closed the door again. Hi, my name is Jenn. And I failed to keep writing. It’s not that the ideas went away. This time around, I’m good to go with the ideas. But every time I sit down to add more to the story, I end up doing something else. Here is a list of things that I allow to distract me: Facebook, email, blog posts about writing, blog posts about publishing, catching up on old…
When Hunger Games became popular, a part of me got sad. As much as I liked the concept and thought that author Suzanne Collins pushed the limits in a good way, I actually got a little depressed, and I expressed a little of my frustration in one of my first blogs. Why? Because one of my novel concepts was very similar. I created a dystopian world with a female protagonist with limited movement in the world. She was also a rebel-at-heart who encouraged others to buck the system controlled by those with money who were disconnected with the reality of life outside their space. While it wasn’t the same story, surely the way I told it and how I wrote would help get it…
Falls Into Writing 