Tag Archive for: L. Ron Hubbard
Dragon Con 2017 – Day 2
/0 Comments/in Events/by Joni LabaquiAnother great day at the Atlanta Dragon Con! It all started with the Dragon Con Parade and our entry featuring Battlefield Earth.
Avoiding Cliché Openings
/0 Comments/in Writer Articles/by Joni LabaquiMany years ago, Damon Knight, a fine writer and editor, wrote a book on how to write short fiction. Damon talked a bit about avoiding clichés.
The Illustrators of the Future by Will Eisner
/0 Comments/in Illustrator Articles/by Joni LabaquiWhile my own career has been spent in the practice of sequential art, a form that arranges images and text in an intelligent sequence to tell a story, I have nonetheless always been professionally involved in the fundamentals of illustration. I, therefore, feel I have accumulated enough experience with which to endow my advice with some credibility.
Persevere
/0 Comments/in Author spotlight/by Joni LabaquiIt’s been nearly a year since I found out I was a finalist for L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest, and very nearly five months since I was announced as the 2017 Golden Pen Award winner. To say my life has changed feels like an understatement.
Pictures That Tell Stories
/0 Comments/in Illustrator Articles/by Joni LabaquiThis article was originally published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XI. Mankind has used pictures to tell stories from the beginning of time. Recently, ancient cave paintings were discovered in France, and while cave paintings aren’t new discoveries, these are unlike anything seen before.
The Problem of the “Told” Story
/0 Comments/in Writer Articles/by David FarlandI have talked about some of the most frequent problems that I see when judging for the Writers of the Future Contest, and today I’m going to tackle one of the biggest: the problem with “told” stories.
How to create an award-winning illustration
/0 Comments/in Illustrator Articles/by Guest BloggerHow does one actually create an award-winning illustration? Illustrators of the Future judges include some of the most famous illustrators of the 20 and 21st centuries—and are not easy to impress.
Your First Five Pages
/5 Comments/in Writer Articles/by Joni LabaquiA writer pointed out today that when you send a novel to an agent or publisher, they normally ask for the first five or ten pages, just so that they can gauge your writing skill. If those pages don’t grab the reader, it won’t sell. So, he wondered, what do I look for in those first five pages?
Meet the Winners – Jeremy TeGrotenhuis – 1st Q 2017
/0 Comments/in Author spotlight/by Joni LabaquiA couple of years ago I decided to stop blogging in order to focus on improving my fiction, and, well, I just won Writers of the Future, so that seems to have worked.