BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Ok, test question, what’s the biggest top secret thing you know that you’d have to kill me if you told me? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:46:23 +0000 2013)
TomKingTK: It has to do with my wife, and she’d probably kill me before I got to you. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:47:58 +0000 2013)
Jaleta_Clegg: RT @BryanThomasS: 15 min to #sffwrtcht with @simonschuster author @TomKingTK talking #writing #superheroes #crowdedskies and more! (Thu Jan 10 01:48:56 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Perfect, so go ahead and tell me then 
#sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:49:38 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Okay, so this one time…ugh. My husband is dead. Sorry. Please support my kids and buy his book. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:51:32 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I can’t believe he had time to write “ugh” as I killed him. What a talented, beautiful, dead man. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:52:37 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Well, he did have a way with words… #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:54:41 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: Future Guests 1/16 @dwgrintalis 1/23 @andrewmayer 1/30 Roundtable with @talkwordy 2/6 @ShellyAdina 2/13 @stevengould #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:55:07 +0000 2013)
sffwrtcht: Future Guests 1/16 @dwgrintalis 1/23 @andrewmayer 1/30 Roundtable with @talkwordy 2/6 @ShellyAdina 2/13 @stevengould #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 01:55:07 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: Welcome to Science Fiction Fantasy Writer�s Chat. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:00:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Welcome to Science Fiction Fantasy Writer�s Chat. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:00:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Our goal is to talk w/ writers, editors, & others abt the craft of writing, specifically related to writing speculative fiction. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:01:08 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Please wait until your question gets answered to ask another & use the hashtag #sffwrtcht for all questions and comments. (Thu Jan 10 02:01:21 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: We may hold questions at times to allow our guest to answer and catch up. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:01:36 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: This is especially true since tonight’s guest is former CIA and thus not used to thinking…..on his feet, I mean #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:02:03 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Tonight�s guest @TomKingTK is a former Counterterrorism officer for the CIA who served in the Gulf. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:02:14 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: A husband and father, he�s also worked at Marvel and DC Comics, and lives in Washington D.C. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:02:28 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: His debut novel, a mix of graphic novel and literary prose, A ONCE CROWDED SKY, is out from Touchstone @simonschuster #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:02:58 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I can do plenty of thinking on my ass, I’ll have you know. Years of training. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:03:03 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: It�s the story of superheroes who�ve lost their powers and purpose until a crisis calls them again. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:03:13 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: He can be found online at http://t.co/uJBvIgS0, and on twitter and Facebook. Welcome to #sffwrtcht @TomKingTK! (Thu Jan 10 02:03:37 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Thank you so much for having me. This really is an honor, and, of course, please forgive my spelling. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:04:31 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@tomkingtk and I bumped into each other over breakfast @chicon7 It was his first Con, I believe #sffwrtcht Looked like a deer in headlights (Thu Jan 10 02:04:38 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@tomkingtk First things first, where�d your interest in science fiction and fantasy and comics come from? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:05:00 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Mostly because I was in fact a deer in the headlights. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:05:28 +0000 2013)
kodermike: @TomKingTK Spoken like someone living in NOVA. Just saying. #SFFWRTCHT(Thu Jan 10 02:05:53 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Spelling, schmelling. We all need editors on here. Glad to have you! congrats on your debut novel! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:06:09 +0000 2013)
talekyn: @sffwrtcht @simonschuster @TomKingTK *Sigh* I’m really not doing well at the whole “read book BEFORE the guest comes on #sffwrtcht thing. (Thu Jan 10 02:06:19 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I was your typical nerd kid who escaped from the world of bullies to the world of heroes and swords and powers. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:06:31 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I think it started with Greek Myths, moved on to Narnia, and then the world, not this world, but other, cooler ones. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:06:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@tomkingtk Who are some of your favorite authors and books that inspire you? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:08:04 +0000 2013)
Marquitz: RT @sffwrtcht: .@tomkingtk First things first, where�d your interest in science fiction and fantasy and comics come from? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:08:16 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Caves of Steel was my 1st sci fi novel. Still one of my favorites. #sffwrtcht(Thu Jan 10 02:08:36 +0000 2013)
PrinceJvstin: @TomKingTK Great taste. One of Asimov’s best! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:09:07 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: @TomKingTK I just read CAVE OF STEEL for the first time last Fall. Loved it #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:09:35 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: War and Peace, Look Homeward Angel, G.K. Cheterton, Watchmen, Hemingway #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:09:36 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I have my top books that changed me on my writing desk. Those are some of the names. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:10:07 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK When did you decide to become a storyteller and how did you get your start? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:10:16 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Asimov will always be sort of my science fiction God. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:10:59 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Writing was always my dream. You escape into fantasy and you want to tell others about your escape. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:11:31 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @TomKingTK Ahhh so you do have a lot of literary influences. Chesterton’s awesome #sffwrtcht I love Hemingway and War & Peace also (Thu Jan 10 02:11:37 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK How�d you learn craft? Trial and error? Formal study? Workshops? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:11:47 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I took some time off of that dream after 9/11 to see what I could do to help. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:12:09 +0000 2013)talekyn: @sffwrtcht @simonschuster @TomKingTK Meaning, I bought the book. I just haven’t read it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:12:38 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I left when I had kids. My first sale was this novel in full. A Once Crowded Sky. A small miracle of a thing, really. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:12:45 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Mostly trial and error. I studied History and Philosophy in school #sffwrtcht(Thu Jan 10 02:13:27 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: When I decided to go after writing as a career I bought every how to write book out there and sort of taught myself. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:13:58 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Did you start with shorts stories, novels? As you said, ONCE CROWDED SKY was your first pro-sale. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:14:42 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I’d love to have gone to a workshop, but it didn’t fit into my life, so I had to try to figure out the rules from those books. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:15:02 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I had a practice novel, that I loved, that was fairly horrible. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:15:58 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: “Carry The Three” was the title; it was about God and guns and death, the same things I always write about. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:16:31 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK I can just see you, sneaking thru the streets of Baghdad, HOW TO WRITE book under one arm, comic book under the other #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:16:39 +0000 2013)
Wyld_Dandelyon: @TomKingTK Yeah, the best workshops don’t fit into all lives! #sffwrtcht(Thu Jan 10 02:16:53 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I knew I was serious about writing when I decided to throw it away and write something better. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:16:55 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Where�d the idea for A ONCE CROWDED SKY come from? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:17:06 +0000 2013)
chippermuse: @TomKingTK I think we’ve ALL had a practice novel/story like that. If it’s our baby, it’s beautiful even if it’s ugly. 
#sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:18:37 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Super heroes losing their powers. It’s a fairly transparent metaphor for escaping a world of violence. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:18:57 +0000 2013)kodermike: @chippermuse @TomKingTK Some of us don’t know how to let them go. 
#sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:19:07 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I wanted to write about my experience, that sort of odd post 9/11 fight. When I wrote super heroes came out. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:19:41 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: In the book, frmr superheros have lost their pwrs, but a new threat calls them back into action, forcing them to rely on ea othr #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:19:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK How long did the novel take to write? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:20:34 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Yeah, I still have dreams of going back to that first idea. Lazy, can’t-think-of-a-new-idea dreams. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:20:43 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @kodermike @chippermuse @TomKingTK Roll it up and smoke it, Mike. Set yourself free! #sffwrtcht #pageatatime (Thu Jan 10 02:21:06 +0000 2013)talekyn: @chippermuse @TomKingTK Currently, I think I have several practice novels. And lots of practice short stories. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:21:17 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Yeah, the book is about the struggle to escape a game of war, how hopeless and noble that struggle is. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:22:00 +0000 2013)chippermuse: If I count the “practice” short stories I have written, I’d have to cry. Guys like @TomKingTK give me hope. #noquitting #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:22:36 +0000 2013)kodermike: @talekyn Isn’t everything practice until the first pro sale? @chippermuse @TomKingTK #sffwrtcht (easy to say, hard to live with) (Thu Jan 10 02:22:52 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Though the heroes start at rest, something always comes. That’s the problem with being a hero. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:23:06 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Which came first: world, plot, character? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:23:07 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @TomKingTK Did you have that idea in mind for the book before the CIA stuff? Or did that work influence your idea development? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:23:23 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Glad to give it. Please don’t give up. I’ve got the wall of rejection letters like everyone else. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:24:03 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: @kodermike You don’t stop practicing (or learning) just because you had a pro sale! Not if you’re serious about #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:24:06 +0000 2013)talekyn: @kodermike Well said, and agreed. @chippermuse @TomKingTK #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:24:26 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @kodermike I’m inclined to think even the pro sale is practice… I say this because of Brent Weeks’ post… #sffwrtcht (1/2) (Thu Jan 10 02:25:09 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The idea came at the end of my CIA career. It came out of it I think somehow. You have to write what you do. Or did. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:25:23 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @kodermike He said he’d *just* realized a plot hole (small one) in Night Angel trilogy. #talkaboutpractice #sffwrtcht (2/2) (Thu Jan 10 02:25:50 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Now that Tom’s press kit mentions he’s a former CIA assassin, he gets less rejection for some reason… #sffwrtcht #kidding (Thu Jan 10 02:25:55 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: That’s incredibly true. You always have to evolve as a writer, you just hope to control what your evolving into. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:26:36 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @BryanThomasS That’s one way to sell yourself. LOL! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:27:14 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I’ve got to look at the press kit again. I’m cooler than I thought I was. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:27:38 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: @TomKingTK LOL! Yes, change is inevitable, but you can at least try to steer! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:27:52 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @TomKingTK heh #sffwrtcht His business card says “I have concealed carry…and I shoot first” #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:28:36 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The sad part is sometimes you read your old stuff and you wonder how you came up with that, will you ever do it again. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:28:58 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Ok, back to how long it took to write and the which came first… @BryanThomasS is digressing #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:29:21 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: @BryanThomasS is @TomKingTK a pantser? The Extraordinary Pantsers could doubtless find a use for a person with those skills. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:29:52 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @chippermuse @Wyld_Dandelyon @talekyn @kodermike Good evening all! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:30:06 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: It took about a year and a half to write, another year to sell. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:30:41 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I’m a semi-pantser. I construct beats into a novel and then I work to those beats. Between I pants the pants out of it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:31:42 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @TomKingTK Can you tell us a little about the process of selling it. What worked for you? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:31:58 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Trying to sort out where to begin to explain ur pantheon of heroes. It�s a large cast. Tell us abt them & their wrld #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:32:54 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I went the traditional rout with a query letter. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:33:09 +0000 2013)chippermuse: RT @TomKingTK: I’m a semi-pantser. I construct beats into a novel and then I work to those beats. Between I pants the pants out of it. # … (Thu Jan 10 02:33:10 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: OMG @followthelede is here! SHE LIVES! SHE LIVES! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:33:23 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: But in all honesty I used a connection to a connection to get out of the slush pile. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:33:32 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: @TomKingTK How many agents did you have to query to get interest? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:33:57 +0000 2013)
followthelede: Well, barely, but yes. RT @BryanThomasS: OMG @followthelede is here! SHE LIVES! SHE LIVES! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:33:57 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The agent called me, asked if I could make some basic changes. I didn’t listen, I was so nervous, I just said yes, whatever, yes. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:34:16 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: If he had said you need to stand on your head for six weeks, and I can sell the thing. Head standing I would’ve gone. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:34:56 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: OK, the @followthelede joke of the week thing might have to be less frequent now, guys… #sffwrtcht I had a good one this week, darn. (Thu Jan 10 02:35:30 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Since I had the connection I stuck with the one. And waited. And waited. And waited. My life was my refresh button. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:35:43 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Ok so which came first: characters, world, plot? #sffwrtcht and tell us about your world & characters pls #catchingupquestions (Thu Jan 10 02:36:53 +0000 2013)followthelede: I like that “my life was my refresh button.” I may have to appropriate it. @TomKingTK #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:37:12 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @TomKingTK So patience was a virtue. Eventually. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:37:36 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I always go in the same order. World. Character. Plot. Plots the hardest and perhaps the most important. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:38:19 +0000 2013)followthelede: Jokes incarnate r much better anyway MT @BryanThomasS: The @followthelede joke of the week thing might have to be less frequent #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:38:49 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The world we have in A Once Crowded Sky is a world of super heroes who have all lost their powers. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:38:54 +0000 2013)talekyn: RT @TomKingTK: I’m a semi-pantser. I construct beats into a novel and then I work to those beats. Between I pants the pants out of it. # … (Thu Jan 10 02:39:20 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The characters are a former sidekick who never wanted powers to begin with, and a military leader who just wants to rest. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:39:41 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @followthelede It was @chippermuse and @PrinceJvstin who came up with the idea. I told them it was cruel, I swear #sffwrtcht #raiseshand (Thu Jan 10 02:39:47 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The plot is what happens when a new threat comes and these men have to go back to war, have to chose whether to go back to war. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:40:25 +0000 2013)followthelede: Is it a standalone or part of a series? MT @TomKingTK: A Once Crowded Sky is a world of super heroes who have lost their powers #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:40:37 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK But it’s our world in the near future right? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:40:43 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Yes, it’s our world, but it’s the Super Hero version of it you find in movies like Avengers or any comic book. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:41:51 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK uses comic cells to illustrate prtclr scns How did you envision that as you wrote? When/How did the artist come abrd? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:41:58 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The super hero world has almost become as common a backdrop as a saloon in a western. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:42:32 +0000 2013)followthelede: Less than credible MT @BryanThomasS:It was @chippermuse and @PrinceJvstin who came up with the idea. I told them it was cruel #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:42:35 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The first volume is stand alone. But there may be more coming. The theme of the book is “They all come back.” #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:43:15 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @followthelede @chippermuse @PrinceJvstin Your lack of trust hurts me #sffwrtcht #deeply #sniff (Thu Jan 10 02:43:43 +0000 2013)PrinceJvstin: @TomKingTK would the sequels be standalone set in the same world or direct sequels? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:45:30 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK pls share some links to the art. It�s an unusual approach/opportunity you had to work so closely with an artist. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:46:25 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: They’d be with the same characters but with complete contained arcs. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:46:42 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I modeled Crowded Sky on themes from Dante’s Paradiso. The others would be on themes from Purgatory and Inferno. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:47:52 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: See? @followthelede Ex CIA @TomKingTK has my back. #armedanddangerous #sffwrtcht #imhissidekick (Thu Jan 10 02:48:02 +0000 2013)talekyn: @TomKingTK Are any of your heroes intentional homages/pastiches for existing comics characters or did you try to distance? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:48:42 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Yeah, the book is a bit of hybrid as it contains comic art.http://t.co/7h2JlaoG #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:49:02 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The meta idea is that when these comic book characters lose their powers the transform from comics to prose. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:50:15 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: A ONCE CROWEDED SKY has graphic/comic strips incorporated with the prose. Very cool approach but unique #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:50:31 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: So the book begins as a comic book, turns to prose, and features flashbacks to their former lives in comic form throughout. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:50:50 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK You got to choose the artist, which is unusual. What is it like working so closely with him? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:51:10 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @TomKingTK LOL, okay now I REALLY like you. (We get silly around this chat, and it’s good you like to joke.) #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:51:44 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK And how did you envision the art working with the prose when you wrote? All based on the meta idea? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:51:44 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: You have pictures of your characters in your head and you expect them to live there forever, then someone draws them. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:52:17 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I have no talent for art. The great Tom Fowler was my cover and interior artist on the book. He’s a master and he just got it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:53:11 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @chippermuse Well @TomKingTK met me at a Con and saw how crazy I can be, so he came in expecting it #sffwrtcht #prechatjokingtoo (Thu Jan 10 02:53:16 +0000 2013)followthelede: What’s the ratio of art to written sections? @TomKingTK #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:53:53 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: He introduced me to Tom Fowler, the artist, at @chicon7 also #sffwrtcht Nice guy. Very talented. (Thu Jan 10 02:54:12 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK What�s your writing time look like-specific block? Write `til you reach word count? Grab it when you can? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:54:30 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: It was sort of a dream to have it work that way, but I wasn’t sure I could do it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:54:47 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: It was my editor at Simon & Schuster who pushed it and really supported it, much to my pleasant shock. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:55:38 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I try to write a page a day. Single spaced. 11 point font. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:56:16 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: 5 days a week with weekends and holidays off. Sometimes I go over. I try not to go under. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:56:43 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: RT @TomKingTK: I try to write a page a day. Single spaced. 11 point font. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:56:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Do you have any writing rituals or tools? Scrivener? Word? Something else? Do you write to music or silence? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:57:47 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: When I wrote my 1st two novels (2nd ones not out), I was taking care of my kids full time. I wrote when they slept basically. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:57:51 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join us! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:58:08 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join us! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:58:08 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: Future Guests 1/16 @dwgrintalis 1/23 @andrewmayer 1/30 Roundtable with @talkwordy 2/6 @ShellyAdina 2/13 @stevengould #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:58:38 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: If you write a page a day you have a draft in six months, you edit for six months, you have a novel in a year. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:58:52 +0000 2013)
DWGrintalis: RT @sffwrtcht: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join … (Thu Jan 10 02:59:11 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @chippermuse @followthelede @PrinceJvstin 
De Nile is a river in Egypt #sffwrtcht #justsaying (Thu Jan 10 02:59:13 +0000 2013)chippermuse: RT @TomKingTK: If you write a page a day you have a draft in six months, you edit for six months, you have a novel in a year. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:59:45 +0000 2013)talekyn: RT @sffwrtcht: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join … (Thu Jan 10 02:59:46 +0000 2013)chippermuse: @TomKingTK That’s a great way to approach it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 02:59:58 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK What�s the best and worst writing advice you�ve ever gotten? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:21 +0000 2013)kodermike: RT @TomKingTK: If you write a page a day you have a draft in six months, you edit for six months, you have a novel in a year. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:22 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I write to music. A lot of indie rock and Bob Dylan. I write in the dark with headphones on. Just me and the screen. Glowing. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:23 +0000 2013)talekyn: RT @TomKingTK: If you write a page a day you have a draft in six months, you edit for six months, you have a novel in a year. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:35 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: Please `Like� our Facebook group: http://t.co/CeHCXuLJ #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:57 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Please `Like� our Facebook group: http://t.co/tFOTDqY6 #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:00:57 +0000 2013)kodermike: @TomKingTK Just admitted to glowing in the dark while writing. #whostherealsuperhero #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:01:07 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @DWGrintalis @sffwrtcht We are too! #sffwrtcht Lost my Nook, so reading the file on the laptop! (Thu Jan 10 03:01:23 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I write in Word for Mac in Cambria in 11 pt. at 167% magnification. Everything looks deeper in Cambria 11 font at 167. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:01:49 +0000 2013)
TwistedSciFi: RT @sffwrtcht: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join … (Thu Jan 10 03:02:23 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: So I radiate a bit as part of my process? Whatever works. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:02:45 +0000 2013)followthelede: MT @TomKingTK: I write 2 music. A lot of indie rock & Bob Dylan. I write in the dark with headphones on. Just me & the screen… #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:02:49 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @chippermuse and I are here all week! #sffwrtcht @followthelede @PrinceJvstin (Thu Jan 10 03:03:37 +0000 2013)kodermike: @TomKingTK Your words, not mine #sffwrtcht (and btw, thanks for putting up with the peanut gallery tonight!) (Thu Jan 10 03:03:49 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Best & worst writing advice you’ve heard? #sffwrtcht #secondtolastquestion (Thu Jan 10 03:05:42 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: I just got a new desk chair. I’m kind of scared it will somehow affect my word choice. This is the life of a writer. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:06:45 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @chippermuse Tom and I started early. Did you see our pre-chat test question? http://t.co/dfbaa2y2 (Thu Jan 10 03:07:04 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK LOL Is it a dictionary chair with words all over it? #sffwrtcht #justsaying (Thu Jan 10 03:07:55 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Best: People are not linear. They do not relate to their motivations on a one to one basis. People are you. People are absurd. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:08:04 +0000 2013)
MorgenRich: @TomKingTK Chairs are benign. Just don’t move anything on the desk. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:08:36 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Worst: I think that “kill your darlings” line gets a little too much play. Life is short. Write the crap out of your darlings. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:08:47 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK LAST QUESTION: What future projects are you working on that we can look forward to? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:09:35 +0000 2013)MorgenRich: RT @TomKingTK: Worst: I think that “kill your darlings” line gets a little too much play. Life is short. Write the crap out of your darl … (Thu Jan 10 03:09:55 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The chair is fine! I think. I hope. Dear God, what if it’s not fine? Where’s my old, lucky chair?!? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:10:01 +0000 2013)
rookberg: RT @sffwrtcht: Next week, we talk #horror #tatoos #writing and more with @dwgrintalis, whose debut novel, INK, came out last month. Join … (Thu Jan 10 03:10:06 +0000 2013)talekyn: RT @TomKingTK: Worst: I think that “kill your darlings” line gets a little too much play. Life is short. Write the crap out of your darl … (Thu Jan 10 03:10:16 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: @TomKingTK Yes! My critique group once told me the best line was “out of character”. I kept the line and rewrote the rest. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:10:20 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @TomKingTK I’m actually killing some darlings tomorrow to save my novel. heh #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:10:45 +0000 2013)talekyn: RT @TomKingTK: Best: People are not linear. They do not relate to their motivations on a one to one basis. People are you. People are ab … (Thu Jan 10 03:10:52 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @TomKingTK Wrote the heck out of them first though #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:10:57 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Yeah, the best dialogue should go a little crazy. It should not be what your characters think they want to say. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:11:50 +0000 2013)followthelede: RT @TomKingTK: I just got a new desk chair. Im kind of scared it will somehow affect my word choice. This is the life of a writer #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:12:28 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Oh, those poor darlings. Haven’t they suffered enough? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:12:35 +0000 2013)followthelede: RT @TomKingTK: The chair is fine! I think. I hope. Dear God, what if its not fine? Wheres my old, lucky chair?!? #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:12:43 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Sorry we kept you over. But you did so well. Thanks for chatting with us. Again: A ONCE CROWDED SKY @simonschuster #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:12:53 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK The complaint I got was that they didn’t suffer enough… They were too nice. Sigh. #sffwrtcht #ohmydarlingsohmydarlings (Thu Jan 10 03:13:32 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: My next thing out is an alt universe short work in a comic Anthology Time Warp. It’s also with Tom Fowler. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:13:39 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: My next novel is a war novel, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever written or perhaps will write. It’s with the publishers now. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:14:14 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK Awesome, well, hey, continued success. Hope to see you at a Con again this year. Thanks again for hanging with us! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:14:57 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: We have all the transcripts, extra interviews, giveaways, and more at:http://t.co/t66YT75v #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:15:23 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: We have all the transcripts, extra interviews, giveaways, and more at:http://t.co/O8BbU3Pf #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:15:23 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Here’s a link to the Time Warp story http://t.co/Njj1lUVo. Please check it out. I kind of love it. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:15:28 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: .@TomKingTK Is the war novel specfic or is it more military drama? #sffwrtcht(Thu Jan 10 03:16:38 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Thank you so much. This has been a ton of fun. Bryan, you sir, rock. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:16:51 +0000 2013)Wyld_Dandelyon: @TomKingTK Thank you for stopping by and chatting! And esp. for your best and worst advice. I loved both! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:17:52 +0000 2013)MorgenRich: @TomKingTK Thanks for sharing with us. Continued success and rapid settling into your new desk chair! #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:18:14 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: .@TomKingTK My pleasure, man. Glad you made it on. It was fun to hang out again. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:18:15 +0000 2013)sffwrtcht: Thanks all for joining us. The transcript will be posted shortly. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:18:37 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: The war novel is about our current war, the war on terrorism. It takes place in 2006. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:18:58 +0000 2013)BryanThomasS: @MorgenRich Welcome to #sffwrtcht. Come back any time. We do this every week! (Thu Jan 10 03:19:22 +0000 2013)TomKingTK: Thank you everyone. This has been great. And I did it all in my new chair. #sffwrtcht (Thu Jan 10 03:19:40 +0000 2013)Participants
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