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I Killed Someone Fictional
Yesterday I reached the Crap Zone, so I needed to do something to propel my NaNoWriMo story forward. I had no choice, I had to kill my favorite character. It was painful, it was abrupt, and it was...
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A Thought on Originality
I often hear people complaining about a story they just read, saying it’s not original, and it pisses me off. I mean, people, what do you expect? This is 2011. We’re not exactly living in the dawn of...
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How To Get Female/Minority Characters Right?
That’s the kind of bullshit question you find lying around the Internet, assorted with bullshit answers, most of the time. Behind that question lies the notion that, if you’re a male writer, you’re...
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Ways To Keep My Brain Healthy (1)
I’m a writer (see exhibit A). Since writing is what I want my life to be about, imagination is my most precious tool. But imagination is not a magical power; it’s the everyday name of a very specific...
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Ways To Keep My Brain Healthy (3)
This one is aimed in particular at the writers out there, indie like myself or otherwise. Still, I’m fairly certain it can benefit everybody else. Today’s tip is twofold: read and write daily. I don’t...
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What’s Up?
The other day, someone asked me, “What’s up?” And well, that’s a legitimate question, isn’t it? Of course, being a socially-awkward writer, I mumbled something half-audible about books, which was met...
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2013 Resolutions
Picture from http://www.morguefile.com/ First and foremost, happy new year! Best wishes for 2013 and beyond! I hope you lot had a nice time yesterday. Please tell me you didn’t turn into selfish sacks...
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Dragonmore #2: 23,000 Words In
Update on the book? OK, quick update then. It’s coming along nicely, considering it’s a first draft and I like it as much as anyone can like a first draft. So far, I’ve piled around 23,000 words, and...
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Writer Etiquette
Or rather “Etiquette when talking to a writer”, but that made an awkward title. It doesn’t matter who you or your circumstances are. If you are a writer and you’re neither J.K. Rowling nor Stephen...
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Forget Talent, Have Potential
I said it before and I’ll say it again, I hate the notion of “talent”. It’s just plain insulting. When you and I do good, we do good because we worked our arses off, not because we were handed some...
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