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Brain Games for Blocked Writers: 81 Tips to Get You Unstuck
Howdy! During the pandemic, one of my weekend projects was a book of tips for breaking through writer’s block. It’s finally here!
Stuck on your story? It can happen to the best of us: our characters refuse to character, our book refuses to book. Here are 81 creative exercises to get your brain moving again, including:
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Tiger Honor
Thousand Worlds #2
Sebin, a young tiger spirit from the Juhwang Clan, wants nothing more than to join the Thousand World Space Forces and, like their Uncle Hwan, captain a battle cruiser someday. But when Sebin’s acceptance letter finally arrives, it’s accompanied by the shocking news that Hwan has been declared a traitor. Apparently the captain abandoned his duty to steal a magical artifact, the Dragon Pearl, and his whereabouts are still unknown. Sebin hopes to help clear their hero’s name and restore honor to the clan.
Fox Snare
Thousand Worlds #3
While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will have to rely on all their wits, training, and supernatural abilities. And let’s not forget the Dragon Pearl…
The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales
In this magical collection of flash fiction fairy tales, encounter science-minded fox spirits, tiger wives, books that can be read by anyone but their owner, and more!
Enter a world of magic and myth, where foxes fall in love and robots build their own dragons. In The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales, New York Times bestselling author Yoon Ha Lee crafts together short and moving stories of love, adventure, magic, and nature. With poetic language and intricate world building, readers will be whisked away to a different adventure with every new story. Full of fascinating creatures and LGBT+ romances, this collection combines the classic with the contemporary in Yoon’s captivating style.
The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories
On a dark and dreary world at the edge of all known space, at the end of the universe, there lives a candlevine gardener.
Phoenix Extravagant
NEWS: Due to the pandemic, Solaris will be delaying the release of Phoenix Extravagant from June 2020 to October 2020. I’m really sorry about this–they think the book will have a better chance to succeed with a later release. For anyone who can’t wait, there will be a limited edition from Goldsboro Books Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fellowship releasing in May 2020–check the link for details. (Yes, they do international orders; they’re in the UK.)
Hexarchate Stories
The Machineries of Empire #4
Hexarchate Stories is a collection of short fiction set in the world of the Machineries of Empire trilogy (Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, and Revenant Gun). It’s about half reprints and half new material; the latter is mostly in the form of “Glass Cannon,” a novella sequel to Revenant Gun.
The Vela
The Vela is a serialized space opera from Serial Box, which I co-wrote with Becky Chambers (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet), Rivers Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts), and S. L. Huang (Zero Sum Game). Concept by Lydia Shamah.
Dragon Pearl
Thousand Worlds #1
Dragon Pearl is a middle grade Korean mythology space opera: the heroine is Min, a fox spirit who runs away from her impoverished planet to solve the mystery of her missing brother. Along the way, she’ll encounter space pirates, a sinister tiger spirit captain, ghosts, and more–perhaps even the legendary Dragon Pearl with its ability to terraform worlds.
Revenant Gun
The Machineries of Empire #3
Jedao woke up in a luxuriously appointed suite, all ink painting scrolls and curious asymmetrical chairs and translucent tables. The last thing he remembered was being sprawled on a bed in a much smaller room wrestling his friend Ruo for a game controller. This had better not be a hotel, he thought, wondering if Ruo had persuaded him to do something regrettable again. He couldn’t afford anything like this.
Not trusting the situation, he ducked down behind the chair he’d found himself in, and listened. No sound. After a while, he peered around, careful to stay silent. There was a closed door, and across from it, an open entrance to another room. No windows or viewports, unless they were concealed.
Ruo, he thought, if this is another one of your pranks—
