A synopsis! I actually wrote a synopsis! Not only that, I wrote it before the book was done!
( If you really think you want to... )

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Joe spoke to the man in Russian. "The Red Cross is sending a..." He turned to Moe and switched to English. "What's Communist for 'truck?'"

"Say 'Studebaker.' He'll get the idea."

Joe turned back to the Russian man and went back to Russian. "The Red Cross is sending a Studebaker with supplies."

This from a cousin ( Read more... )

Writer's block isn't always about word constipation. Sometimes, the words flow like too much chocolate. They just don't take the story anywhere. You reach the point where you know that if you write anything, you're gonna have to take it out. My writers' group is already complaining ( Read more... )

25,399 words on the Schuleroman and it's still the first week of term! ⚉

Three of the guys are wearing pink shirts until I get the plotting done. I only plan to thwack one of them. ♟

My friends over at the aviation Community tell me I need more than one flight instructor at the school. We have so far only seen Embry Fishawk, (I do get grief from my critique group about character names.) He is a retired Marine chopper pilot who has seen combat, and may seem a bit curmudgeonly to a sixteen-y.o. girl. Another reason for more instructors ( Read more... )

And now, dear reader, I think the time has come for a pause to consider the path of our story: where it has been, where it is, and where it is going, leading me on in such a way that I have chosen to execute this pause in the telling in the old Victorian manor--not the ancient house with the great feasts, distraught characters with baroque strings ( Read more... )

Some writers swing from POV to POV like Tarzan on his grapevines. That's not me. I wrote The Princess in a tight third. First person really, but with "she" replacing "I."

The Talisman starts the same way, In Karen's POV. But Karen and Amaranth are juniors, now, and The Talisman revolves around two freshmen girls, Kelly O'Banyon and Holds-Two- ( Read more... )

When replacing the flush handle on a toilet:

The nut isn't rightie tightie, it's the other way.

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