E. Prybylski's Blog

Yep, TCM is moving over to Substack in an attempt to increase my visibility. The archive will remain here on the website, so you won’t lose access to any posts you rely on or want to bookmark, and new posts over on Substack are going up for free. It’s just a change to get more […]

We hear it all the time. How just “be you, and everything works out!” It sounds like a platitude after a while. Especially when you’re not one of the people society usually wants to hear from. The disabled, the neurodivergent, the minority, the queer. While being entirely authentic to ourselves in public spaces is a […]

I don’t so much have advice this week as I do have reflection. Coming up on April 8th, I have my first author event. It’s not a huge one, but it’s still more than I’ve ever done before. I’m going to be on a panel at my local library and selling books afterward. Now, you […]

All right, so when writing one of the main goals is to draw the reader through the piece. This is done any number of ways with story and characters and plot, but that’s not what we are here to talk about. Instead, today, I’m going to forge into straight up writing craft specifics that are …

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When I first did the math to see how much editing per book cost, my heart just about jumped out of my chest. Holy crap, it was that much? I know how my clients feel the first time they see the numbers for an estimate. It’s not cheap. Not at all cheap. Or, if it …

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Okay, so last week we talked about tension. How to use it, what it is, and how I define it. Now that we’ve gone through that, let’s talk about this new method of story crafting I created accidentally for the conference while planning my talk on story structure. Yes, I did plan it late at …

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I don't identify tension as the stakes of a story. The stakes are the stakes. They can be high or low. That's sort of dependent on the story itself and its ins and outs. But tension is more akin to potential energy.

As I mentioned last week, the conference came and went like a hurricane in my life. And, as with a hurricane, my body knew it was coming a week before and a week after. There was also a week of “cleanup” after it. It’s not done, of course, but I’m working at it. All of …

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The Neurodivergent Publishing Conference (NPC) happened this past weekend, and I could not be happier at how it went, honestly. While I haven’t talked a lot about it here (and I should have) I have been working very hard at this project for essentially a year straight. So what is it? As the name implies, …

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So, with the rise of the machines and AI infiltrating everything from art to writing, we now need to consider what in the hell we���re going to do about it? Let me start by saying I don���t hate AI as a concept. In fact, I have found some interesting uses for ChatGPT and if apps …

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