Tag: writing
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Use of The Dream in Fiction
It’s difficult to skillfully incorporate a character’s dreams into a work. Or maybe I should say that it’s easy to do it badly. As I reader, I cringe when a dream sequence is blatant foreshadowing. It doesn’t make it better if the character doesn’t remember their dream. I find myself wondering if the character is…
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Raising an Idea from Infancy
Turning an idea into a book is quite a process. I’ve had plenty of ideas that can’t make the cut. Some are ill-formed, others merely incomplete. I don’t actually make any claims that I’m a font of good ideas. Three of my four fiction works are set in the same ficton (fictional universe). When you’re…
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Excerpt: (As yet un-named) Sequel
With The Sunshine Line almost ready to be published and Help Wanted at a brief stall (just for a few days) I decided to start working on the (as yet un-named) sequel to The Sunshine Line. There are still plenty of rough edges, as I am hip-deep in the editing process at the moment. That said, I…
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Excerpt: Silver Linings
Note: Silver Linings is now available for sale; click on the link to the right (from the blog)! Chemo ‘How I’m doing’ update November 9, 2008. This time last cycle I was curled around a bowl, sobbing and puking and wondering how many times I would have to hit myself over the hit [SIC: meant…
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The Birth of an Idea: The Sunshine Line
One day in the summer of ’09 I had a dream. When I woke, all I could remember was a scene. Someone is in a perfectly normal kitchen and fairies start spilling out from the cupboards and such. The image amused me; I thought, I could make a story out of that.
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Excerpt: Silver Linings
Note: Silver Linings is now available for sale on Amazon (click the link to the right) or can be read in its entirety for free as a PDF. 90% of my royalties will be donated to the Young Survival Coalition. Chemo etc. ‘How I’m doing’ update January 28, 2009 My counts didn’t end up indicating…
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Excerpt: Silver Linings
Introspective Interlude January 3, 2009 One of the girls in my chemo group asked today: “Does anyone get down like that? Sometimes I get so MAD at myself. I seriously can NOT believe I have/had fucking cancer. What the f?????? I feel like a freak. How did this happen? Am I a genetic mutant or…
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Excerpt: Silver Linings
Note: Silver Linings is now published. You can go to the Silver Linings page to learn more or click the link to your right to buy the book. (From Feb. 21, 2009) Rather to my surprise, the port removal surgery went pretty smoothly. There was a glitch, which I will get to, but over all, not…
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Excerpt: Silver Linings
Note: Silver Linings is now published. You can go to the Silver Linings page to learn more or click the link to your right to buy the book. Excerpt: Post-Surgery ‘How I’m doing’ update September 14, 2008. Missed a pain pill in the night and paid for it, but I am having less pain today,…
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Excerpt: Help Wanted
They got to the substance abuse clinic just before 9:00 AM. Amy explained to the receptionist why they were there, and they sat down in the lobby. After about 15 minutes, the receptionist called out, “I’m sorry, could you come up here again, I have a question.” Amy went to the desk. The receptionist said,…