Anders Åslund
What's It Like Holding Your Own Book In Your Hands?
This question is one of the more common that I get: how do you feel now that you've published your book? What's it like holding it in...
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Anders Aaslund
Fiction Writer
Anders Åslund
- Aug 25, 2022
- 4 min
Why Researching How Others Write Might Kill Your Drive
There are as many ways to write as there are writers. And I suspect the number of writers out there has exploded in the last 10 years or...
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Anders Åslund
- Jun 30, 2022
- 3 min
Inspiration and other pointless things
Inspiration is like having a friend you’re not really sure is your friend. Sometimes, they don’t return your DMs, sometimes they gush...
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Anders Åslund
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Best Piece of Writing Advice I’ve Ever Received
I’m going to tell you about a verdict given to me by a reader. At the time, it infuriated and frustrated me, because it revealed to me...
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Anders Åslund
- May 19, 2022
- 3 min
Social Media Will Kill Us All
Fair warning: I’m going to come off as a grumpy boomer in this post. I don’t really hate social media. I just think it’s more complicated...
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Anders Åslund
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Source Code, part two
Last post I named some of the influences and inspirations for my writing. I promised, for this post, that I would drop some comps–that...
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Anders Åslund
- Apr 11, 2022
- 4 min
Source Code, Part One
While thinking about comps, I’ve been tracing my sci-fi lineage. Comps, for those not in the indie cult, are titles that my work in...
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Anders Åslund
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
The Unbearable Lightness of Self-Publishing
Some blogger somewhere wrote that it’s less stressful going the indie route because “you don’t have any hard deadlines.” No, they weren’t...
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Anders Åslund
- Mar 13, 2022
- 2 min
Processing... processing...
Writers love to talk about process. There’s a name and a method for everything. Editor Ellen Brock, on her Youtube channel, mapped out...
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Anders Åslund
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
Your Friendly Neighborhood Writer-in-Training
Hi. This is my first blog post. You’re reading it for the first time. I’ll call that a meeting. Let’s get this one out of the gate...
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