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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 he rebuffed her diversely. He wouldn’t answer her calls or her pings. Her emails got…

  • 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 tab was flashing Paul Fournier. She clicked on the tab and looked at the chat…

  • 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 50% of my royalties to WEAVE, an organization dedicated to helping women and children at…

  • 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 to achieve “comprehensive” in this post, but I’m at least going to open up the…

  • 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 first draft you can let that strong inner editor loose on your work and hopefully…

  • 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 not a contest, it’s a challenge. Nobody gets a prize and you’re not competing with…

  • 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. Since I’m close to sleep, my mind wanders. Sometimes it wanders in a useful way…

  • 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 the program for 90 days, after which I will make the book available in a…

  • 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! The Sunshine Line will initially be offered exclusively through Amazon, where I can do promotional days…

  • 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 I’m not going to try to adjust the formatting, it just isn’t worth it. I…