Tag Archives: John Robin

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 Builders 2.0 — John Robin

At long last, World Builder 2.0, which has run for the last 2 months, comes to an end. To cap it all off, I thought I’d take my own medicine. What follows is a short piece about the world of … 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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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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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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Dragons!

Happy 2016! I hope you all enjoyed the short stories from last month as we launched the Epic Fantasy Writer collaborative blogging endeavor. This month, we’re back to write about the meat and potatoes of fantasy: dragons. What better way … Continue reading

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Unveiled: exciting news and a future twist for this blog

Ever since my first post, I’ve known I’m not a blogger, but I didn’t want to get rid of this blog because I thought maybe if I persevered enough it might turn into something. It seems the thing to do … Continue reading

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World Builders — Aitor Ibarra

World builders today takes a twist. Instead of exploring fantasy and science fiction worlds, my guest today shows how world building can be applied to the real world, and how the real world can be mapped out and built into … Continue reading

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I’m published!

Last June, I was approached by bestselling highland romance author, Ceci Giltenan (known for her Duncurra books), about contributing to a short story anthology that she was going to put together through Cridhe Works, LLC. It was a great opportunity … Continue reading

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World builders and a busy month writing

This last month has been so busy, between continued progress on Blood Dawn and the increasing complexity of balancing my evolving narrative and all the notes that go with it and editing projects. (I’ve edited six books in the last … Continue reading

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