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Help Wanted: Excerpt, Chapter 2

Help Wanted is coming soon! Another chapter to make you quiver with anticipation. Or something like that. 2.BACK TO THE REAL WORLD Amy didn’t have to wait long for more details. Rita tried several more times to contact Paul and … Continue reading

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Help Wanted: Excerpt, Chapter One

Help Wanted  is coming soon! Don’t worry, the published product will look tidier than it does in blog-post  format. 1. THE MAN IN THE BOX Bonk. Amy looked away from the television to the laptop on her desk. Her Gmail … Continue reading

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Gearing up to Publish Help Wanted

Barring unforeseen obstacles, I will be publishing Help Wanted at the end of the month. Help Wanted is different from anything else I’ve written, or will ever write. It’s a fictionalized true story about generosity repaid with abuse. I will be donating … Continue reading

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Outlining

I’ve addressed outlining in a couple of previous posts ( The Larval Stage of an Outline and The Bare Bones Outline ) but both of those were specific to individual works and hardly comprehensive. I don’t know if I’m going … Continue reading

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The Inner Editor

Your inner editor is that voice in your head that tells you when you’ve made a typo, or written an awkward sentence, etc. A strong inner editor is not a bad thing, most of the time. When you’ve written your … Continue reading

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National Novel Writing Month (aka: NaNoWriMo)

Okay, I know it’s still September and NaNoWriMo doesn’t start until November, but I thought to myself, Why wait to tell people what it is? Before I get into the history and utility of NaNoWriMo, let me say this: It is … Continue reading

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Plotting in My Sleep

Or at least near my sleep. When I’m in the planning phase, the outlining phase, of a new book I’ve found a pretty darn reliable way to work on ideas. I snuggle in to go to sleep and then start musing. … Continue reading

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Temporary Removal of Excerpts – The Sunshine Line

The Sunshine Line is published! How exciting it that??? I have enrolled The Sunshine Line in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, which requires that no more than 10% of a work be published anywhere else. I will be participating in … Continue reading

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It’s almost time for The Sunshine Line!!

After some delays on the cover art, The Sunshine Line is almost ready to go! Some time in the next few days I will be posting (to Google+ and facebook) the excerpts previously published on this blog, counting down to publication! … Continue reading

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The Larval Stage of an Outline

Every story has to start somewhere. Truthfully, this isn’t especially vague for me for an intial outline. Got to get the ideas I have down, and go from there. Still, this is pretty funny stuff. I hope you enjoy! Oh, and … Continue reading

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