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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Barry Gifford |Monica Gallagher |Alex Segura |Steven Barnes
Barry Gifford and Chris Condon. Oni, $29.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-63715-614-8Condon (The Enfield Gang Massacre) adapts the 1992 story collection by Gifford (Wild at Heart) into a scabrous, booze- and vengeance-fueled ride on the wild side. Each of the Southern-set tales is drawn by a different artist and features bad men doing bad things and women seeking revenge.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
lists.pocketcasts.com | Jay Kennedy |Distribution Advocates |Jordan Crucchiola |Steven Barnes
Fresh List The Big Screen Open List in Pocket Casts Download OPML File Maximum Film! The Screen Show Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein The Letterboxd Show The Last Video Store Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair Another Lens Distribution Advocates Presents Hollywood Gold Feeling Seen Countdown To The BAFTAs Lifewriting: Write for Your Life! The Geek Buddies CineFix Top 100 Queer Movie Podcast 70mm Culture Gabfest Pop Fiction Women The Film That Blew My Mind The Empire Film Podcast...
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Sep 30, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
I BLEW it recently In a conversation with someone who was very defensive, I got irritated when they continually mis-represented my position. They accused me of being upset (which was I think, a tactic) and I took the bait...and denied it. Dammit, the instant I did that I lost. Violated the Three Gates. Didn't matter how wrong they might have been up until that moment. I LIED. I didn't realize it at the moment, but that's what I did..
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
"And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right."― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between UsBrendon Burchard asks himself three questions every night: "Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?" Powerful. I wake up with a similar set of questions:What is there to do today? How will it further my goals?
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
I mentored an Analog contest winner yesterday. It was GREAT fun. I taught some of the same principles we'll teach in the SECRETS OF HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITERS workshop coming up on September 23 ( www.hollywoodloophole.com). I gave her the six-link "Lifewriting Chain" to success, testing her reactions, watching her face and listening to her voice to see where her breakdown was. And it was in the third step: "polish and submit" at least one story a month.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
Mark September 23, 3-8p ET / 2-5 pm PT on your calendar! Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are conducting our ONLY live writing workshop for 2023 - and this time it's all about screenwriting!TEN WRITER'S SECRETS TO BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD This will be an intensive three- hour lecture/Q&A teaching the basics YOU need to create and build a career. The topics will include (but not be limited to):1. The FORM and LANGUAGE of screenwriting. 2. The biggest mistakes new screenwriters make 3.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Steven Barnes |Tananarive Due
Steve and Tananarive talk to New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo (Ninth House, Hell Bent, Shadow and Bone) on her incredible career: from jobs she didn't like to publishing her first book at 37 to getting her work adapted for Netflix...and beyond! Also tips for writers and how she keeps herself balanced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See All
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven Barnes |Tananarive Due |A Ryan |Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Tananarive Due. Saga, $28.99 (576p) ISBN 978-1-982188-34-4NAACP Image Award winner Due (The Wishing Pool) takes an unflinching look at American racism in this masterful work of historical horror. When Robert Stephens Sr., a Black man, is accused of trying to rape a white woman in 1950 Gracetown, Fla., there’s no chance for justice. He flees to Chicago, leaving his 16-year-old daughter Gloria and 12-year-old son Robert “Robbie” Stephens Jr. behind with promises to be reunited one day.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
Hannah's note said: "Dear Steve. I wouldn't go with you if you were the last dog on Earth." I'd had a crush on "Hannah" (not her real name) for years, and finally asked her to "go" with me (our middle school version of "going steady.") And at the end of the next school day, as promised, she passed me that note, all the girls in class giggling at my humiliation. I felt like a crushed bug. We all know what it feels like to get our guts kicked out, and that was my first.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
stevenbarnes-87684.medium.com | Steven Barnes
There is a way in which, properly integrated, you can measure life success in terms of "how much time do I spend in flow state?" When this flow state is connected with peak performance in a balanced matrix, it means you aren't stressed out, your life hasn't been hijacked by urgent crap that could have been solved by generative behaviors. In flow state time disappears. You sink into the page, the conversation, the brainstorming, the drive, the motion, the pose, the breath, the game.
