![]() ![]() I get the sense that he values quantity over quality, and he certainly does pump out licensed books at an astounding rate and that's incredibly impressive, and I'm happy for the financial success he's achieved doing it, absolutely. ![]() I almost never see books rated below 3 stars on here no matter how bad they are. His "Thunder Mountain," series he keeps using in examples for this book has a 3.04 star average and the first book has a 2.76 star average. I would really prefer not to have to point this out, but he doesn't have a single novel listed on goodreads that's cracked a 4 star average that I saw. ![]() Never do rewrites, never look back after it's done. Fix everything as you go, as it comes up, immediately. Among the silliest things he recommends is to only write one draft of your novel. Smith makes some half-hearted attempts to say that this isn't necessarily the only right way to write, but he clearly believes that it is, as the book is filled with incredibly repetitive and immature jabs at outliners, english professors, editors, and publishers. So while I have nothing against discovery writing or "pantsing," I take issue with the way this book presents this style of writing and fails to address the strengths AND weaknesses inherent to it. The podcast writing excuses and Brandon Sanderson's lectures are what drilled this belief into me, most likely. There is no right way, there are simply tools, and some tools work better for some than for others. I'm a firm believer that what works is what works when it comes to writing. Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.Ĭurrently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.ĭean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. ![]()
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