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Blog postI wasn’t able to get quite as much writing done last week as I wanted to, but I was able to get in some much-needed research. Specifically, I was researching the early 20th century labor movement, focusing on the tactics of the early unions and the steps that were taken by corporations and politicians to curb their power and end labor strikes. What I found is that this was a very chaotic time in our country’s history.
Many people feared that unionization was a big step in turning -
Blog postThese days, it seems like something crops up every day that keeps me busy. That’s not all bad, of course, but it does mean my writing progress is often slow and haphazard. Even so, I’m still pushing ahead with the third Allison Newberry mystery. My goal last week was to get up to 10k words. I didn’t get that far, but I’m currently really close to that goal. So, it’s still coming along. Things are a little bit different with this story, thanks in part to new characters and a new setting, but i
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Blog postThe goal this week is to get back into the swing of things. For various reasons, I haven’t been to get much writing done lately, but I’m hoping to have the time this week to change that. As I mentioned earlier, I’m starting work on the third Allison Newberry mystery. So far, I’ve got a good idea to work from, an interesting new location, and a brand new case that’s gotta be solved. The current word count is roughly 7,200 and I’m hoping to write at least 1,000 words per day, at least while I’m
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Blog postThis week has been spent mostly on working on what I want to write next. I’ve got lots of ideas, some of which are more developed than others, but what I have ultimately decided to work on next is the third Allison Newberry mystery. I feel like I have a very good basis to work from and a story that will be worthy of being the next step in the series. At present, I’m not ready to actually get into the details just yet. Suffice it to say that it will continue to live up to the legac
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Blog postHow long has it been since I last posted an update? Too long! Well, a lot of things have been going on and I just haven’t had the time to really do any writing [or edit work], so I haven’t had anything to post about. That’s just how it’s going to be moving forward, I’m afraid. Less time for writing, more time on other matters. I certainly wish that wasn’t the cast, but that’s life.
Anyway, so what am I doing? Right now, I’m thinking about what I want to do next. I’ve got a fantasy sto -
Blog postIt’s been much too long since my last update. Well, I got busy this week and just didn’t have the time for much of anything else, unfortunately. So, starting today, I’m going to post a continuing series on characters, how I write them and why I write them the way I do.
Part 1 – Complex Individuals I’ve written a lot of different characters. Young characters, old characters, male and female. With every single one of them I’ve always tried to make them feel as much like real people as p -
Blog postThis week is much the same as last week. I’m still working my way through Beyond Sand and Sky, which is coming along very well. Unfortunately, this phase of writing is fairly slow, because I’m actually doing a lot of rewrites along the way. Just about every sentence in the story is being reworked for quality, coherence, and length. A lot of the sentences were just too long and too convoluted, owing to me going through a phase of wanting more complex and interesting sentence. It sort of worked
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Blog postEyes of Diamond, Hair of Gold is now finished and available for sale. This was a big project for me, not necessarily in length or the complexity of the story, but in writing a sequel that would continue the tradition set by the original story and exceed it in the ways that it needed to be exceeded. I feel very confident that I was able to do that. If you’ve not gotten your own copy yet, you can find the Kindle version on Amazon and the paperback version on Create Space [links are available on
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Blog postWhile working on a draft of book that I wrote some time ago, which I hope will become the final draft, I’ve been focusing on sentence length and sentence readability. This story was written during a phase where I wanted to create more complex and interesting sentence. In some way, this work. In other ways, it left behind sentence that were far too bloated and had too many parts. This wasn’t necessarily a problem when I was only hanging on to the story for my own personal interests, but n
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Blog postWhat is this series about? When I decided to start writing a mystery [before that I had written science fiction and fantasy almost exclusively], I wanted to write about murders that were a bit different from the norm. The idea was to set up situations and cases that other detectives didn’t necessarily want to deal with, either because of their sensitive nature or because of their perceived complexity.
So, the case would fall to one detective in particular: Allison Newberry, a junior
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