Writing Prompt: Unfinished Books
The WordPress/JetPack writing prompt for today is: What’s a book you never finished but still think about? I think most […]
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TAU CETI: The Playlist
Over the years writing TAU CETI, I’ve had a short playlist of songs that I felt either captured a theme of the story or the mood of a particular scene.
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Writing Prompt: Publishing is Broken. Can We Fix it?
Publishing is broken and there’s not enough time to fix it before my novel comes out. Two words keep coming to mind: Plan Accordingly. I wish I knew how.
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Tau Ceti: Chapter 1 Sneak Peak
Meet the crew of the experimental ship Santa Maria. It’s not a happy crew, but that’s OK, they may all die soon anyway…
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Writing Prompt: Writers Write
I read an interview with a writer who was asked to give advice to new writers, and the advice was simply “Writers write.” That’s what makes a writer. If you’ve ever tried to write a novel, you’d know it’s hard.
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Writing Prompt: Leave That Book Alone
Sometimes these writing prompts aggravate me. This one was one of them. Stories, even flawed ones, represent the story that the author chose to tell.
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Dramatis personae: The Characters of TAU CETI
TAU CETI is a big, complex story with a large cast of characters. This non-exhaustive list gives all of the important characters.
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Tau Ceti: Final Chapter Titles?
With thirty-eight chapters and a prologue, TAU CETI is an epic tale, with this final draft starting at 159,000 words.
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TAU CETI: Michelle’s Lost Prologue
TAU CETI has had two different prologues over the course of its existence. Neither are in the final edit of the book. This is the second prologue, told from Michelle’s perspective, a flash forward from very near the end of the story.
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The SpeckLit Years
There have been two important people on my path to writing short fiction. I’ve talked about one of them, Janet Reid, many times. The other person, I don’t know as much about: Alex F. Fayle.