Brummet's Conscious Blog

 -- World of Writing -- Joining us today for a world of writing interview is author Hank Quense - who writes humorous and satiric sci-fi and fantasy stories. He also writes about fiction writing and self-publishing. He has published 14 books and 50 short stories along with a few dozen articles. He and his wife, Pat, usually vacation in another galaxy or parallel universe.   They also time travel occasionally when Hank is searching for new story ideas.   Visit Hank's websites: http://hank-quense.com/wp http://strangeworldsonline.com/wp Q: Tell us about the workshops or events you offer. A: I give a number of lectures.   The three most important ones are a two-part lecture called Creating Fiction .   The other two are Self-publishing a Book and Book Marketing .   These are given in libraries and adult education classes as well as on webinars.   I also have a number of shorter ones such as Writing Humor...

 -- From Writing to Film -- We are pleased to present to you an essay written by Jacquitta McManus, sharing her journey into the world of writing, while balancing a film project.  Jacquitta's recent children's fantasy-adventure novel is now available via her site: http://www.worldstodiscover.com -- As a little girl from KY I didn’t have a lot of outlets that allowed me to explore  what drew me to those stories.  All I knew was that they were exciting adventures and I loved the experience of the imagination. As I got older and it was time to  make a decision about what to do as a career I realized that the only thing that  interested me was animation. So I headed off to college for a digital animation  degree. I loved computers so it seemed like the obvious choice. So, I was in college taking my courses… taking art classes, taking animation  classes and of course the basics. P.S. I was one of the students who hated taking  the b...