Tie-in Tuesday: Nathan Long's Light Bulb Moments

Amongst other things, I am a tie-in writer*. So is Nathan Long. Okay, tenuous link to Tie-in Tuesday established - now on with the blog...

Nathan has learnt a thing or two about writing over the years - what he likes to call Light Bulb Moments. For example, did you know that writing a novel is impossible? Or that proper channels don't work?

Interested? You should be. And if you are, you can read more about Nathan's Light Bulb Moments here.


* I've recently been working on a couple more Moshi Monsters titles.

I am a Media Tie-in Writer

It sounds like something you'd hear at a discreet meeting in a village hall somewhere.

"Hi, my name's Jon."

"Hi, Jon."

"And I'm a media tie-in writer."

Polite round of applause.

So, the secret's out. I'm sure many of you were already aware that I had a media tie-in habit - what with all my Warhammer and Warhammer 40K books, not to mention the comic strips I've written for TMNT, and then there's my Doctor Who stuff - but I've finally come clean and admitted it.

And to help me with my addiction I've joined a support group, the IAMTW, otherwise known as the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

You can find out more about the IAMTW here. And you can blame Nathan Long's intervention for my joining.

Nathan Long on writing for the Black Library

Anyone interested in writing for the Black Library, or even just writing in general, should find this video by Nathan Long (author of the Gotrek and Felix books and Ulrika the Vampire trilogy) highly enlightening.

Nathan Long on writing

Below you will find a link to a very informative video which explains how Gotrek and Felix writer Nathan Long goes about writing a novel.