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85Revenge, Inc: Part 6: A Short Story
Hello everyone and welcome. I'm sure that you want to get to the story already, but before you do, I just want to say that this installment was by far the most difficult for me to write for a number of...
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88Write Your Novel From The Gut
"Ari on my knee" oil pastel 8" x 10" by Robert A. Sloan. My furry muse sheds virtual cat hairs of inspiration in your direction! People go into therapy to "get rid of their dirty laundry." Novelists wash...
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90How to use First Person, Second Person or Third Person in Novel Writing
First person shows a scene from within one character’s point of view as if the character’s telling the story about something he or she experienced. Second person is a “game master voice” describing...
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81Revenge, Inc: Part 5: A Short Story
Hello everyone and welcome back. I apologize to any of you that are overly anxious to get this story in its entirety, as I'm doing my best to publish this series as fast as I can. In the meantime, please...
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85How to use Past Tense, Present Tense and Future Tense in Novel Writing
One of the easy ways to tell beginner writing is that the story bounces from past tense through present tense and future tense at random. Unskilled writers who don't keep a consistent tense can confuse...
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76Top 10 books to read before you die
I found picking just 10 books for my list of: top 10 books to read before you die, a daunting task. I mean there are just so many great books out there. The ones I ended up with are more than just great, they...
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82Top Ten Stephen King Books
I’ve written about one other favorite author here, now in this I’ll discuss my other favorite author Stephen King. No other author that I have ever read has been so insanely easy to be scared or...
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82How To Draw Characters: A Friendly Introduction
Meet Ken, his hair is thinning, he has robust sideburns and he's happy although just a little pensive. This is a basic introduction to drawing characters. I've included three sample drawing charts each with...
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74Top Ten Dean Koontz Books
Of all the writers and published writers in the wide world one is my absolute favorite. That one is none other than Dean R. Koontz. Mr. Koontz has been writing novels, short stories, and the like since 1968...
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92Hawaii and Tsunamis
I first encountered the term tsunami as a teenager while reading James A. Michener's epic novel, Hawaii. In one part of that book he describes an off shore earthquake in a remote area of the Pacific which...
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