Tag: fiction
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Muddling By – Third Draft Finished
“Celebrate good times, come on!“Hmm. Maybe that’s overstating the case. Lose the “come on” and the exclamation point, but keep the essence.“Celebrate good times.“The introverted part of my nature is more satisfied with that.I finished the third draft of Muddling By (working title). Whew. Little yay. Pardon me as I plagiarize my email to some…
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Muddling By – Second Draft Finished
“Ah.” And you can quote me on that. Today, April 16, 2025, I finished the second draft of my next book. Let me scroll back to see what I called it last time. Muddling By, a working title. Also known as “From Middle Class to Millionaire to (mostly) Muddling By” or “A Rollercoaster Ride Through…
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Care
Care. Care what you write about. I care about writing this, and I won’t apologize to everyone who doesn’t care I wrote it. Writing about what you care about seems so simple. Why else write? (Unless you’re getting paid and you need the money.) But also be careful. It is April 2025. I do not…
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Muddling By – Second Draft Begun
I almost titled this post Justifiably Reprimanded, but that can apply to anything. More correctly (Almost) Justifiably Reprimanded was possible, but too many syllables. I’ve started working on the second draft of Muddling By, which partly explains my recent delay in posting. A reader justifiably reprimanded me for not keeping everyone informed about the book’s…
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A Writers Vacation
Pause Beethoven, or at least someone playing his music. It is time to write, and for this post, to write about writing. As I mentioned in a recent post (Defiance) on my oldest blog, “I expected to take a few days to write for my self, writing about things that are so personal that I…
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Popular Posts 2024
Someone else had the idea for this blog. Thanks for the inspiration. They reasoned that I did so much writing that my writing deserved its own blog. I didn’t doubt that I’d find something to write about writing. I write. It works that way. Looking at the top ten posts from 2024 points out that…
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Fire Race – The Ebook
Coping and hoping? Doesn’t that describe what every character is doing in a novel? Fire Race, the second book in my science fiction series (Exodus/Genesis), obviously describes how a bunch of humans (who are actually aliens because they’re on a different planet, AintEarth) and a bunch of aliens (who are the current residents of the…
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Fire Race Launched
Be cool, dude. You’ve done this before. You have a new book. Wrong punctuation. Make it more personal, because it is. I have a new book! Fire Race, the sequel to my scifi novel, Firewatcher is launched! It’s available on Amazon, and has been for days. As of less than an hour ago, as I…
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