Richard Dee's Blog, page 18

A few old words, repurposed and looking for a new home.

The perils of reorganisation. As well as the short stories that have been included in various anthologies, I have published three collections of short stories of my own. They never sold many copies or got a lot of page reads, … Continued

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What I think, what you think.

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Don’t forget to click the purple button to see what everyone else has to say on this week’s subject. It’s at the end of my post. Write a … Continued

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Taking my foot off the gas. The perils of trying to be everywhere, all of the time.

This is the post I’ve been meaning to write for some time. When I retired from my job, I always intended to have a quieter life. To get used to the idea, I did it in stages. I went part-time … Continued

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You’ve got thirty seconds to impress me.

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Don’t forget to click the purple button to see what everyone else has to say on this week’s subject. It’s at the end of my post. Do you … Continued

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Further down the Rabbit Hole.

You might think that writing Sci-fi would require little research. Most of the things you use haven’t been invented yet, you can just do what you want. Wrong! You need to base all your world-building on scientific principles and known … Continued

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Was I ever a real writer?

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Don’t forget to click the purple button to see what everyone else has to say on this week’s subject. It’s at the end of my post. Do you … Continued

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New release. Sword and Fire: The Mercian Chronicles. By P.J. Reed.

This week, we’re looking at a Fantasy adventure by P.J. Reed, the writer of everything from Haiku poetry to Horror and Children’s fiction. I’ve always been a huge Fantasy fan, I cut my teeth, so to speak, on Narnia and … Continued

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Sorry, I didn’t get your name.

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Don’t forget to click the purple button to see what everyone else has to say on this week’s subject. It’s at the end of my post. How do …

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A somewhat inconvenient paralysis of my writing muscle. Maybe a change of focus is required?

Now I’ve finished Where’s Lizzie? I would expect to be writing several thousand words a day on one of my other projects. After all, I have enough half-finished work to be getting on with. I’m lucky to be able to … Continued

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What’s in a name?

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Don’t forget to click the purple button to see what everyone else has to say on this week’s subject. It’s at the end of my post. Do you …

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