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How I Write My Novels

In the old days, you never really wondered about how someone wrote their books. Tolkien probably wrote his books longhand into notebooks. Heinlein no doubt…

Movie Review: The Lost Battalion

If you have never seen this movie, expect to have your heart torn out. This is the kind of writing every author should aspire to.…

Where will I move To, I wonder?

Once I get signed to a publishing contract, and my books start selling dozens of copies (!), the question is – where will I move…

Genre?

You know, my writing is… Let me start that again. Because, really, nobody cares about my writing. They care about the story, the characters in…

Writing Influences

Years ago, I read a lot of sci-fi. I would say that I wasn’t really inspired by a lot of them. Robert Heinlein was IT…

Screen writing

As I mentioned previously, my writing program for novels is Scrivener, which I just recently purchased, after I wrote a third of a book during…

What am I working on right now?

Right now I’m working on book #4, which is roughly about 42% done. My first novel is in its third rewrite. I’m also working on…

Working on One

I’ve been mulling over a short story on one of my characters in my novels. I should have something online in a day or two.…

Time! Not enough of

I have too many projects going, or at least… too many things I’m trying to do. Write books in a ten-volume series Get a literary…

And… at 55,000 words

at 55,000 words. Sometimes the words just pour out of me. Sometimes I poke at it, and struggle to get 1,700 words. Sometimes the words…