Month: April 2018
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#Revpit 2018
I submitted Infinity’s Heir to the #Revpit twitter contest this year. I’m waiting on feedback (which is why the blog has been silent), but have a post planned for early next week. Stay tuned…this one is going to be good!
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Weathering the Storm: Exposition
As a writer, I have an unquenchable desire to put as many words to paper as possible. The resulting stories are often painstakingly overwrought, swollen by details that overshadow everything within: the narrative, the characters, and even the world. Every one of the novels I’ve crafted has been plagued by this surplus…
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Video blogs?! Streaming?!
So…I’ve been thinking a lot about what I can do to make Storm at Sea a little bit more robust. I believe the current content is good, but want to avoid rehashing the same material over and over as I write, and query, new novels. To that end, I’ve considered…
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Prank, Chocolate, or Flesh (50 words max)
This bit of flash fiction is loosely based on the novel I just started writing. Hope you enjoy! Navigator (50 words) – written 4/4/2018 The body was a container for a mind: more fragile than silicone, yet more malleable for it. And far more capable of computing a course between…
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The Writing Process of Aiko’s Dive
In the past, I’ve talked a lot about the origin of Aiko’s Dive. But, as many times as I’ve mentioned where the novel came from, I’ve never talked about how it was created. At only 1000 words long, the original flash fiction piece was far less than a complete concept.…
