Have you ever considered trying your hand at fiction writing? Have you ever thought that maybe you knew the characters better than the author? Or you would write a story differently than the author did? Then perhaps you are a candidate to write fanfiction. If […]
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I usually try to keep politics out of my stories. By politics, I am usually referring to current political issues regarding policy issues. Unfortunately, politics often now includes social issues that go beyond justice, civil liberties, or the use of tax revenues. While some of these social issues
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Writing at any time of the year is not a piece of cake. Sure, a lot of people think that writing is so easy that anyone can do it, but the truth of the matter is that writing requires specific skills and training (better pay attention in English class,
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Guess what? I get a month off! Well, not really. I’m house-sitting my son’s house while he’s galivanting on some other continent, giving talks on nuclear physics or some such topic I barely understand. But I’m not complaining. It’s an air conditioned house, I have access to his record collection, and my dog has a
With the current invasion of Ukraine by the despot of Russia, I find it difficult to focus my attention on writing my stories. I have relatives who are from Ukraine itself and from other parts of Eastern Europe that Putin has hinted he believes belong back in the Russian empire. I hope that history takes
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I just completed the first draft of Book 26 of my Hot Dog Detective series, The Zamboni Zealot. I’ll not describe the content of the story in this post, but instead focus my thoughts on completing a draft. When I was a kid, I would watch various programs that featured writers or whatnot, completing their
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