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Category Archives: writing
Writing tip: How should I describe my character?
If you are stuck and having difficulty figuring out what a new character should look like, just go to Google images and type in the character’s name. Describe one of the people that comes up. Not only will that give … Continue reading
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First Priest to Contact Intelligent Life
I recently read a book by Michael Z. Williamson called “Contact with Chaos.” It is a story of first contact, one in which we find them. It has a couple of interesting technology wrinkles, and his usual attention to military … Continue reading
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Congregation for the Extirpation of Paranormal Menaces (CEPM)
The best sort of April Fool’s story is one that starts out plausible but weird, then gets progressively stranger until you realize it’s funny and laugh. If the reader passes the story on, believing it to be real, then the … Continue reading
On Becoming a vampire without being bitten
A recent psychological study titled “Becoming a vampire without being bitten: A new study shows that reading expands our self-concepts” says that reading about becoming a vampire, or Harry Potter’s school of wizarding, helps us to psychologically feel we are … Continue reading
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Time Travel and China
The Chinese don’t want stories with time travel that are disrespectful of China’s past. Depending on your definition of disrespectful and of time travel, this could be bad for a book I’m working on. You tell me, is making Lao … Continue reading
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The Jambalaya Writer’s Conference
The Jambala Writer’s conference was 3/26/2011. This conference is unique in that it offers agent pitch sessions and it only cost $30. They were supposed to have an editor as well, but unfortunately the editor canceled. Fiction contest: Yours truly … Continue reading
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A Green Belt in Paranormal
I’m always interested in the stories of how people go from unpublished to published. Here’s a self-published success story. The real problem I have with this process, as well as submitting to agents or editors, is that failure does not … Continue reading
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How Long Should a Query Letter be?
If you’ve finished your novel and are on to figuring out how long your query letter should be, I believe I have a scientific answer! Using the data from the “Successful Queries” column , I have found that successful queries … Continue reading
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Cult of the Red Tears is Finished!
“Cult of the Red Tears” is finished! This is the sequel to my book “Battle for the Sphere.” I began writing it on Dec 11 2008. Today, Dec 30, 2009 it is ready for reviews.
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Cult of the Red Tears
I began working on my rough draft of my novel “Cult of the Red Tears” in December. I have been struggling to get to the end, working every spare moment I could find. Yesterday afternoon I began to realize that … Continue reading
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