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Calvin Gomes holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Management. He has been a senior manager on large projects in the mining industry. Calvin has a passion for reading and writing. Although graduating as an engineer, his best subject at school was English. Inspired by his daughter’s interest in fantasy novels, he wrote his first novel, Salvation of Cronia: Legend of the Orbis, for young adult fantasy enthusiast. It is the first installment of a trilogy. Calvin is married with five children and lives in Perth, Western Australia.

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Writer's Block

Picture Every writer faces "the block" at some time. I did last week. And I've decided to write about how I got past it.

Let me set the scene: I wrote 9,000 words of my second novel in the first week, followed by 3,000 words in the second. I slowed you may say...or perhaps it was a block? Especially so, considering that the week after I wrote 5,000 words in just three days.

Firstly, I have to confess that Read more of this blog post »
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