I was wondering where are mainstream bundle type campaigns for other media than games? Amazon suggest system does something like this, and there is the Humble Book Bundle, but this could be taken further.
]]>Thanks! I'll take a better look at them when I've the time and mental endurance to put up with the putrescent web design of ralan.com.
Meanwhile, are there any beginning writers out there with recent war stories how they got their first story noticed?
Oh, and the first work of yours I read was The Atrocity Archives after being tipped off about it somewhere in the interwebs. I've enjoyed your shorter format stuff a lot as well, and I'll echo Dirk Bruere's sentiment about the realization of Colder War the novel.
]]>Next step after writing the story is getting exposure to it. What are the best contemporary channels for a newbie writer to get as many eyeballs as possible pointed at their awesome story?
]]>What's the best story idea you have had that you didn't (and most likely won't) write?
]]>The effects will be dramatically fast. Unless the country can bootstrap an alternative logistics operation quickly, the stores will run out of food a day after the attack becomes apparent. The country-wide riots will follow within a week, tops. After that the administration must focus their attention inside and any military responses will become secondary.
It would be extremely easy to set up and hard to recover from, too. It just requires a platoon worth of hacker cells distributed around the target country to initiate and keep going. Cutting outside communications will not help, either.
]]>Given how totally many modern societies depend on timely delivery of food, this could have almost immediate and catastrophic consequences for the whole population, not just military.
]]>Since this post is about how the story came to be, I'll hazard a question about writing that has been bothering me for some time.
In any nontrivial story there are lots of scenes. How many of them does a real writer have an idea about when you start writing the story?
For example, let's take the what happened in inspector Dudley's office. At which point did you find out that the story will include that scene?
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