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October 4, 2014
Vote for these covers for Brownie, episode 4 of the Tracking Jane series
Today I want to share a couple of candidate covers for episode 4 in the Tracking Jane series. This episode will feature a chocolate Labrador Retriever that Jane McMurtry trains as part of a sting operation against a Mexican Cartel. Most of the action will take place along the Mexico-US border. There Brownie and Jane’s […]
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October 2, 2014
Why I prefer my writing Organic
Today I address one of those topics that keeps coming among writers: pantsying vs. outlining. Or, as I prefer to term it, you know, to avoid derisive language, Organic vs. Planned writing. As the title to this post suggests, I like mine organic, than you. Why? Let’s work through a few pointers. If you want […]
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September 30, 2014
Planning and when the story takes its own course
I continue to have a great time writing the Tracking Jane series. Even though I like to free-hand my story-telling, I required a little planning for this series to sketch out how each episode serves an over-arching narrative and what aspect of Jane McMurtry’s life it covers within a self-contained story line. Still, as I […]
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September 25, 2014
When the story demands a flashback
As a reader, I find few things as annoying as a protracted, slow-moving, data dump of a flashback. For me, flashbacks tend to halt the progress of the narrative — as in, I hear the sound of screeching tires right before the thing hits an immovable concrete wall. For this reason, early on in my […]
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Rover comes out early
After yesterday’s quick announcement, another one follows today. After completing the final touches for Rover, episode 2 of the Tracking Jane series, I went ahead and released it today. It’s ready, so why not? Like we’ve discussed before, together with Shadow-7, these two episodes add up to a full novel length. If you haven’t picked […]
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September 24, 2014
Tracking Jane series news: updated covers, upcoming releases
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let my readers know some specifics of how the Tracking Jane series is going. First let me say what a moving experience it’s been for me to write this series. My respect and admiration for wounded veterans and what they go through to get on with their […]
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September 22, 2014
Story-tellers and their tools
Do the tools the artist uses to advance his craft matter, and if so to what extent? I recently faced this question in an endeavor I didn’t expect the answer to matter, namely in my writing. To facilitate writing on the go, anywhere writing, as it were, sometime I ago I procured a tablet with […]
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September 19, 2014
Waiting for Shadow, a new episode/prequel in work
Now that I’m more or less done with the first two episodes of the Tracking Jane series and have quarantined the first draft of the third episode before I start editing it with fresh eyes, I got the inkling that some of the backstory in Jane McMurtry’s recovery needs to come out. I am currently […]
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September 18, 2014
More thoughts on word count quotas
You would think that after I posted my polemic about not counting words but making words count, that would settle the matter (yes, that’s a joke). Yet, I ran across a couple of days yet another blog posting about the need for word count quotas. We’re all different, and I’ll avoid the fallacy that because […]
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September 17, 2014
Review: ‘The Minus Faction’ by Rick Wayne, flaws don’t diminish a compelling story
Rick Wayne writes with such skill and unassuming ease, his prose is worth the reading if nothing else for the clarity and spark of it. But for two bothersome flaws, the Minus Faction would earn my full five stars. I was first drawn to Wayne’s story because I wanted to see how he wrote a […]
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