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Generating Ideas
I have to admit that I absolutely stole the idea for this blog post after reading a post on Sophie Littlefield’s Blog about her “secret” plot lunches with fellow authors. She’s right. This is a question we writers get often. Where do you get your ideas? Ideas, for me, come from everywhere. People I meet, things I read in the…
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Writers Who Produce More…
…are awful. It’s an interesting accusation. I have a different take on this. Especially since I’m in the high production category. Some of us are just terribly prolific, sometimes to our own detriment. If you actually knew just how much I wrote (not including these constant blog posts) you’d probably be amazed and ask me when I sleep (I don’t).…
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Fabulous Fiction!
So this weekend I’m finally making great strides in Into Darkness! The first 1/4 has already endured and passed the first revision pass. I’m working on the second quarter of the MS now. While I’ll have to stop working for about five hours this afternoon (another grad party) I’m hoping to have half the manuscript through its first revision paces…
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Perfecting Plots
I’ve actually be writing a pretty good clip the last few days. I put together another 1500 words on IT (great plot stuff), as well as more on MNE. There’s an unedited excerpt of MNE up on this blog somewhere. The password, of course, being IAMOVER18. Remember “unedited”. 🙂 Enjoy. For those who read it initially – I deleted the…
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Eye of the Tornado
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujga-3p21xY] Megadeth: Tornado of Souls It’s a classic. I highly recommend the whole Rust in Peace album. This is where I’m at right now. In the eye of the tornado. I have a deadline coming up and the novel is missing something pivotal. My editor suggested printing out the manuscript to look it over in physical form. She may have a point.…
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Reality
This post was edited 8:07 PM for clarity. Yeah – everyone and their mother keeps writing these silly articles telling everyone they’re going to tell them some great reality of being a self-published author. Something that everyone else is afraid to tell them. Then they lament about how authors have to write a good book, put out an awesome product, and market the…
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Odds & Ends
Writing is an interesting thing. Sometimes something so bizarre or interesting will pop into my head that I have no choice but to write it down. Found this little gem as I was wandering through my “WRITING KEEP” folder. We were twenty yards away from General Blaston when he died. There was no warning. He just stood up with an…
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Goals
I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on OTS #2 though admittedly I think it won’t be out until midsummer at the rate I’m going. But all is not lost. Good things are happening and I’ve actually sold some experimental fiction (in short format). I’m not sure when or how that will turn out…
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It’s All About The Characters
Characters are a passion of mine. I love people watching and finding out what makes a person tick. I think most writers are empathic in this way. A friend of mine recently asked me how writers come up with compelling heroes and heroines. Something Marion Zimmer Bradley once said to me in a rejection letter years ago floated to the…