Monday, January 27, 2014

Ghost Reaper Episode 7 now available

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Ghost Reaper 7 is available at above link. It will be free the 27th and 28th. Ghost Reaper 6 free today 27th only. This story has evolved from a little ghost short story, to a path back to the flesh, to battle against the forces of hell, and leading right into a trilogy of novels I started a year ago. Guess it oozed from my subconscious. Maybe my muse needs therapy.

Friday, January 24, 2014

I'm about half way through a Horrible Horror story that I wrote some 20 years ago. It's longer, awfuler, and a fairly grotesque piece. Hope to have it out some time next month.

Monday, January 20, 2014

I finished Ghost Reaper 7 yesterday. Preliminary edit completed. Should be on amazon by this weekend.http://tinyurl.com/k8tuxsy

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Question. How many of you write by the seat of your pants. I think they call us 'pansters' and for better or worse this is how I write. I never outline. I just start with an idea, plug in characters and let it evolve. Sometimes it causes me problems. Sometimes the characters take over, but some of the wonderful twists and curves come from this.

I think.

Stephen King wrote that if you know what is going to happen so will the reader. Maybe an outline telegraphs the outcome.

I'm interested in other viewpoints. What do you think? Sometimes I feel an outline would give me more focus. Never to late to learn.

Encouraging your writing.

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I'm not talking about writers block, maybe writers "don't want to". I was trying to find a way to encourage myself to write. I suppose some would say if you don't want to write you're probably not a writer. I will consider that for another time. What I did was publish a serial novel. Twelve episodes to be published every 21 days or so. It worked. Not only am I now working on the seventh episode, but I finished a novel that I had been working on forever.

Now. I'm not suggesting you do this, unless you want the pressure of a deadline looming over your head. But try placing a word count on each chapter. Say, 5000 words. Treat it like it is due, as if some catastrophic extinction level event will occur should you fail. Leave yourself hanging after each chapter. This has cured the "I don't want to s" for me. Might be your ticket also. Good luck and keep on writing.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

My dog Petey is a blind Chihuahua, who has trouble walking on our wood simulated vinyl floor. The ceramic causes him no problems. His bed is in our living room which has this tile. Either he hates it or thinks (because it is dark) it is some kind of chasm. We have a towel by his bed and somehow a gap of maybe eight inches separated the two. He groaned and whined and finally chose to jump to the bed. Pretty good hind legs for a 12 year old dog. He cleared the bed and landed past it on the floor. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
He's the dark one with the mask.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Cold this morning. Good day to stay inside and continue my edit of my Novel 'Scizo'.
What if the voices are real?