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Jun 6, 2022

AI art for writers

Is it a threat or a useful tool? — A couple of weeks ago I read an interesting article about the nascent state of AI art. Here it is. It’s a subject that has since stuck in my brain and refused to go away, largely because I seem unable to settle my own thoughts on it. But as a…

Artificial Intelligence

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AI art for writers
AI art for writers
Artificial Intelligence

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Feb 7, 2022

Welcome to the Triverse

Tales from the Triverse is my weekly fiction serial with new chapters posted every Friday. If you subscribe you get them straight to your inbox. I publish it over on my Substack newsletter. You can read the on-going story entirely for free, or become a paying subscriber to help support…

Fiction

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Welcome to the Triverse
Welcome to the Triverse
Fiction

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Jan 31, 2022

We don’t talk about writer’s block

Actually we do, all the time — I’m not sure I believe in writer’s block. Of course, if you experience it, that’s fine — I absolutely believe you. But for me, writer’s block doesn’t really exist. A lot of anxiety around writer’s block I think comes from a misconception about what writing is, and what counts as…

Writers Block

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We don’t talk about writer’s block
We don’t talk about writer’s block
Writers Block

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Nov 29, 2021

9 useful platforms for writers

Free ways to publish and find readers — Today’s newsletter is all about different writing platforms. This should be useful regardless of what you write, although I do inevitably have a focus towards fiction platforms. According to my profile, I joined Wattpad in August 2013. I then proceeded to flail about, posting short stories without any clear strategy…

Writing

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9 useful platforms for writers
9 useful platforms for writers
Writing

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Nov 15, 2021

Writing public first drafts

(and why it isn’t a completely terrible idea) — Writing an online serial is a particularly public form of writing. You’ll probably be publishing a new chapter at least once a week, which means that you’re connecting directly with your readers on a weekly basis. It’s not the same as publishing a book traditionally, where the author maintains a…

Writing

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Writing public first drafts
Writing public first drafts
Writing

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Oct 26, 2021

Adapting games into movies might never work

I just watched the trailer for the Uncharted movie, which is a long-anticipated adaptation of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed Playstation games: There are numerous aspects of the trailer that don’t quite work for me, primarily its liberal attitude towards physics, but it got me thinking about why…

Uncharted

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Adapting games into movies might never work
Adapting games into movies might never work
Uncharted

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Oct 18, 2021

Rediscovering the joy of a magazine

In the 1990s I used to wait eagerly for EMPIRE magazine to drop through the letterbox once a month. Later, that same excitement was for PC ZONE. …

Magazine

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Rediscovering the joy of a magazine
Rediscovering the joy of a magazine
Magazine

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Sep 27, 2021

About those unfinished novels

This is part of my How to Write Serialised Fiction guide. You can find more on my Substack here: https://simonkjones.substack.com/s/how-to-write-serialised-fiction Writers write. That’s what we do, all through our lives, to a greater or lesser degree. Sometimes more toward the lesser. Often it can all feel like tinkering, or bursts…

Writing

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About those unfinished novels
About those unfinished novels
Writing

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Sep 25, 2021

Launching a novel on Substack

I’ve just started serialising my new novel over on Substack. It’s worth pointing out that I was intending to do this long before Salman Rushdie and Chuck Palahniuk started making headlines for doing the same thing. Wattpad has been my primary publishing destination since 2015, when I first started experimenting…

Serial Fiction

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Launching a novel on Substack
Launching a novel on Substack
Serial Fiction

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Published in adventures in fiction

·Sep 20, 2021

The state of serialisation

I wrote a short How to Write Serialised Fiction guide back in 2016. The world has moved no since then and I’ve given the guide a long overdue re-write and expansion. So as to be as meta as possible, I’m serialising my guide to serialisation right here on my Substack…

Serial Fiction

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The state of serialisation
The state of serialisation
Serial Fiction

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Simon K Jones

Simon K Jones

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Serialised fiction author. Find my latest writing at https://simonkjones.substack.com

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