Category Archives: John’s blog

The future of Blood Dawn

There are many possibilities ahead for the future of Blood Dawn, but I think they might best be illustrated in this picture, made by Ave, a fan who has offered to make graphics for me every week now. But, before … Continue reading

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The difference between a draft and a revision

In last month’s newsletter, I mentioned my road map to finishing Blood Dawn. I spent last week unpacking more of what was behind how I have focused my week into themed days (read that here), so I thought this week … Continue reading

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My writing routine — creating a focus for days of the weeks

This month in my newsletter, I talked about how I have returned to the themed week strategy I used while writing Blood Dawn and it inspired me to write more about it for today’s blog post. In last week’s blog … Continue reading

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Making sacrifices: the 80/20 rule and getting Blood Dawn back on track

This week, I made a radical shift in how I work to reclaim the weekend writing time that I’d maintained for 15 months, every week, while I was writing the draft for Blood Dawn. Ever since 2016 began, I’ve been … Continue reading

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The Last World Builder 2.0 — John Robin

Did you actually think yesterday’s post was mine? Did you forget that yesterday was April 1st? (If you didn’t see it, you can read it here.) To those of you who were scratching your heads: APRIL FOOLS! That said, I … Continue reading

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Watch the videos that make up the fan trailer

Many of you have seen the great Blood Dawn fan video (if you haven’t, click here to watch it now – it’s amazing!). In this video, several Inkshares authors talk about what they love about Blood Dawn. However, the fan … Continue reading

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Not a Series: Looking beyond Blood Dawn

Starting this weekend, you can look forward to a blog post from me every Saturday. For those who subscribe to my newsletter, you can keep up on my behind-the-scenes updates, but starting April I’d like to share more here on … Continue reading

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The fan trailer for Blood Dawn

John here! Today I’m jumping in to our usual schedule of world building posts to share something absolutely amazing: The new fan trailer for Blood Dawn! This video was made by one of my closest collaborators on Inkshares, Cara (“A.C.”) Weston, author of … Continue reading

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March and onward: World Building Gallore!

Welcome to March! Spring is not far away, revision for Blood Dawn is well underway, and here on the blog, in the theme of new beginnings the contributors for Epic Fantasy Writer will be talking about world building. This theme will … Continue reading

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John Robin on the Inkshares blog!

A quick post today since many of your are familiar with Inkshares. Today I had the honor of being interviewed by them on their blog! Check out this article where I talk about the motives behind my relentless community building work … Continue reading

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