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Vincent H. O'Neil

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Vincent H. O’Neil is the Malice Award-winning author of the Exile mystery series from St. Martin's Press and the military science fiction Sim War series (writing as Henry V. O'Neil) from HarperCollins.

He is also the author of the theater-themed murder mystery DEATH TROUPE, and two books in a New England-based horror series, INTERLANDS and DENIZENS.

Most recently, he released an innovative news series that pairs a futuristic fiction novel with a non-fiction book.

The novel, A PAUSE IN THE PERPETUAL ROTATION, describes a future United States where people are embracing an underground philosophy called The Unused Path. The non-fiction book, THE UNUSED PATH, is a genuine self-improvement / life philosophy manual that is featured extensively in t
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Vincent H. O'Neil This is an interesting coincidence. I'm re-reading Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, and he had a marvelous observation about the times when his wr…moreThis is an interesting coincidence. I'm re-reading Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, and he had a marvelous observation about the times when his writing wasn't flowing:

"But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there."

As always with Hemingway, I'm not exactly sure what he was saying. But I do follow the simple practice of taking a single idea, scene, or line that interests me and then wrapping words around it. That's how I keep going when the writing is difficult. (less)
Vincent H. O'Neil The best advice I ever got about writing is this: You're not a writer, you're a storyteller. I adopted that as my approach, and ever since then I see …moreThe best advice I ever got about writing is this: You're not a writer, you're a storyteller. I adopted that as my approach, and ever since then I see ideas for stories all around me.

Sometimes it's just a neat turn of phrase I heard someone say, and when I was turning it over in my mind the phrase raised a couple of "what if" questions that then transformed into stories. Other times it's something I see happening that, if it changed just a little, would make for the beginning of a very interesting tale.

The ideas are all around us, and it's up to each storyteller to decide what helps him or her to see those ideas. (less)
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Cal and Rosamund are orphans conscripted into a monastic school that trains teens to be spies and saboteurs serving in the corporate wars. The school has many enemies, and it holds a deep secret: Its top administrators are experimenting with the void created by the folding of space and time, a realm containing unearthly wisd Read more of this blog post »
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This is an outstanding book, and not just for readers seeking to learn more about General George Patton or military history. Patton's lifelong dedication to self-education is on every page of this book, and the benefits of his extensive reading went ...more
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As a lifelong fan of Warren Zevon, I couldn't wait to read this--and I wasn't disappointed. The tales of murder, fraud, betrayal, and karma (both good and bad) all have some reference to Zevon's work, and they're all entertaining.

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Walter Lord is one of my favorite historians, and I enjoyed this work immensely.

It joins the young United States toward the end of the up-and-down conflict with England known as the War of 1812. Events in that final year of the conflict held the pot
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I purchased this book after touring the Museum of the Eighth Air Force in Savannah, Georgia. It's a surprisingly quick read for such a large work, because so much of it is drawn from the stories of the actual combatants.

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“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”
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“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”
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“Manipulation gets people to do something they aren't likely to do if given the opportunity to think.

Appeals to emotion are some of the easiest methods of manipulation, because strong emotions can cloud our minds while also getting us to act.”
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“I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.”
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“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.

Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.

He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.”
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