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When the Writing “I Gotta” Bug Bites You

In Stephen King’s Misery, his protagonist Paul said the “I gotta” motivated him to keep writing despite the tortures inflicted by the villain Annie. By tortures, I mean the loss of body parts, starvation, and other horrors. But he had to keep going because of the “I gotta” bug. At the time, I thought “I [...]

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Autocrit Revisited: When Your Book Needs More…

Some time ago I raved about the merits of Autocrit. I ran Steel Rose and other work through it and became ecstatic when the software ferreted out repetitions, clichés, and problems with sentence structure. I showed up at the PWC with Autocrit-edited work, and learned that Autocrit made a great proofing tool indeed. The extraneous [...]

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When Flowers, Kindness, and Coupons Lead to Mischief

A wise coworker wondered if shopping at several different stores just to get bargains was a good idea. I compare prices before going market shopping, but she suggested that I might spend the money in gas. Giant is having a special where they double the dollar coupons next week, but most of the groceries on [...]

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Editing Software, Anyone?

I’ve read good and bad about writing software over the years, and once considered such gadgets a handy way to flush your money down the sewer pipe. About a year ago writer Gregory Frost talked up Scrivener software, which enables you to edit writing and research at the same time. Scrivener works well, once you [...]

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The Call of the Wild

I never thought I would blog about my balloon collection, but as the cliché goes, never say never. Today was an unusual day for grocery trips. I went to a different supermarket, one that didn’t tempt me to buy balloons. More bad weather is coming our way, so I concentrated on buying supplies. I decided [...]

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To Lie or not to Lie – that is the question.

I’m referring to one of the verbs that give me and other writers a lot of grief – the difference between lie, lay, and laid. That and certain words that mean one thing when used as a compound, and something else when used separately, can mess up an otherwise well-written tale. And so therein “lies” [...]

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Forthcoming Interview and other Night to Dawn News

On September 9, 2010, Art Sippio and Ric Croxton of http://thebookcave.libsyn.com/ will interview author Tom Johnson and me about The Spider’s Web and Tom’s other NTD books. Tom will discuss his favorite character, Black Ghost. I will be discussing Dark Side of the Moon and a potential sequel; also Twilight Healer and Blood Moons and [...]

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Word Wars 2007

I am madder than a surgeon with busted forceps over the changes Word has wrought in 2007. Windows 7 is a delight, different than XP but comes with its own treats, and having a portable computer is great. But Word 2007 came up on the screen like a serpent in the Garden of Eden. They [...]

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Fifty Ways to Ditch Your Website

Well, I guess there must be fifty ways, but I can only pick one. And what I’m doing is moving www.bloodredshadows.com material to the WordPress site. In particular, the NTD books. Several caring readers and friends informed me that they had a hard time finding books on www.bloodredshadows.com because of the layout. Why and when [...]

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Dark Side – forthcoming novel

Sunday, May 16, 2009 Dark Side of the Moon Current mood: focused Category: Writing and Poetry Roswell isn’t the only place aliens crashed. In the early 1960s, the Kryszka crash near Philadelphia, nearly killing the star-traveling passengers. Two scouts, Eigil and his mother, tunnel above ground to explore. Disaster might still have been avertedif only [...]

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