Technology is great… right up to the point when it doesn’t sync to the cloud correctly, craters two hours of work, and just grins back at you with a last saved version while saying ‘No, this is it. There have been no changes.’
John French
@johnfrench.bsky.social
Award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. john-french.com Rep'ed by @losbennett.bsky.social @liverpool-lit.bsky.social Love fantasy, horror and building worlds.
The War of Art is still the best book on writing (or actually doing anything that’s hard) that I’ve read. Never stops being true.
Ten years on, and this is pretty cool!
Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman@theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Black Library Readers' Hall of Fame is proud to induct Praetorian of Dorn, by @johnfrench.bsky.social "The sort of book that warrants lengthy discussion and multiple reads, because there’s so much depth and complexity" - @trackofwords.bsky.social #Warhammer #BlackLibrary #BookSky
‘We are but a party of traveling necromancers…’ WIP of the Outcast Cawdor gang I seem to have started. The Brotherhood of the True Resurrection rises! #warhammer #necromunda #warhammer40k
We have unlocked a new stretch goal on our Time Without Tide campaign: An adventure written by George Mann! Mann has written for some of our favourite worlds including Star Wars, Doctor Who, DC Comics, and Dark Souls. Check out the campaign today: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
I have bravely* announced a serialised novella on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/gavthorpe/po... *Foolhardy some may say.
Novella? Part one | Gav Thorpe Writes Stuff
I dug out a piece of writing I was working on a few years ago and I'm going to serialise it here. There's a couple of thousand words already
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[Steps up to lectern in front of news cameras] Folks… he got him. youtu.be/FTceZxXYZCw?...
Rare encounter between coyote and roadrunner captured in SoCal
YouTube video by KTLA 5
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WIP Redemptionist for Necromunda and Inq28 #warhammer #necromunda #inq28
THE WICKED AND THE WARPED is on Audible today, release day, and Richard Reed is BACK!!!
Amazing! Thank you!
Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman@theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · last mo.The Black Library Readers' Hall of Fame is proud to induct Ahriman: Sorcerer by @johnfrench.bsky.social "...its treatment of the Chaos legions as multidimensional beings instead of simple villains has set it apart as something truly special on its own" - Jay #Warhammer #BlackLibrary #BookSky
WIFE: Weird, I didn’t order makeup sponges… ME: Those are mine. … WIFE: Are you doing makeup when you film videos now? ME: They’re for my models. WIFE: Oh… that makes more sense.
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Random writing tip: Write out a one line summary of your story. Then do it again but differently. Then again. And again and again, until you are barely think of how to say the same thing in a different way. You’ll understand so much more about your story and how to express it by the end.
Yes, after many, many people saying that I should, I am reading Between Two Fires… It’s rather good isn’t it? Thanks to @georgemann.bsky.social for pushing me over the edge! #reading #books
Sometimes I think I’m immune to hype, nerves too burnt out by decades of trailer slams. But then…
William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is wonderful- A huge honour! As I have said before, Exile was a book that I wasn’t expecting to write. The idea for it arrived literally as I was talking to my editor about why another pitch was a no go. Turned out pretty well in the end!
Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman@theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe #BlackLibrary Readers' Hall of Fame is proud to induct Ahriman: Exile, by @johnfrench.bsky.social "French’s first novel for Black Library, you’re unlikely to find a more assured, complex, detailed debut novel than this." @trackofwords.bsky.social #Warhammer #BookSky
'Never open a book with weather' is being added to my list of writing 'rules' that have so many exceptions and counter examples that it might as well be shuffled away into the box of 'guidelines-that-are-sometimes-useful' along with show, don't tell. #writingadvice #writing
I love the fact that this article still exists in the archives of the internet. Both because I had the best time working on the Dark Heresy ttrpg, and because the photo at the bottom of the article is evidence that I once had hair... #darkheresy #warhammer #ttrpgs
Part Six: Adding Some Grim Darkness to the Far Future
by Alan Bligh and John French
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There are times when I want to read something I have not read before, and there are times that I just want to re-read Neuromancer. #cyberpunk #scifi
www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/k... Look what you can pick up now! Krakenblood in paperback! Watch as Ivar Krakenblood makes choices for good and ill, as he chases glory and vengeance!
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Reminder that I'm being interviewed by @johnfrench.bsky.social at Nottingham Waterstones on this coming Tuesday, 30th June, about my new fantasy adventure novel This Is Where The Future Bleeds, and writing in general! Get tickets now! www.waterstones.com/events/mike-...
Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French today.
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It's surface-of-the-sun hot here, so of course I'm inside writing about winter and snow. #writing
Three narrators. THREE NARRATORS! Listen to Armageddon: Season of Fire by Jude Reid on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0H26V1WR...
Armageddon: Season of Fire
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook Armageddon is dying, and Tartarus will fall. The orks are coming, and to stand any chance against the green tide, three soldier...
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Want to know why that huge character biography is not necessarily going to translate to a great character in a story? Step this way... #writing #writingadvice
Create Deep Characters - John French
Discover how to create deep, complex characters by showing character behaviour that forces your audience to revise their judgments.
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Reminder that this is coming up in just over two weeks! Come and see @johnfrench.bsky.social interview me about my new fantasy novel THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS at Nottingham Waterstones! www.waterstones.com/events/mike-...
Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French today.
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I'm sending out an email on how to create characters with depth in fiction, and how it's easier than you think. I'm sending it out tomorrow, so if you sign up now, you'll get it within a virtual eyeblink. Click the link to sign up: john-french.com#mailchimp-po...
