Finding Harmony
"What holds me is the writer's enthusiasm for his field." ~ William Zinsser With the help of friends and family, I believe I have come to a...
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A Friend in the Business
So as all of you know, probably my favorite haunt on the web for minute-to-minute interaction is Scribblers' Den, a writers' group formed under the umbrella of The Steampunk Empire. One...
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"There is no such thing as good writing, there is only good rewriting." ~ Harry Shaw"Books are not written, they're rewritten."...
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"It makes me so uncomfortable for them. If they're talking about a plot idea, I feel the idea is probably going to evaporate. I want to almost physically reach over and cover their mouths and say,...
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"I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not...
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An Unsubstantiated Chamber
"A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened without its science content." ~ Theodore...
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The Best Laid Plans . . .
First things first: I owe a great apology to the beta readers whose time I wasted, among other sins, on a book that just evaporated on me. I will name them and beg their forgiveness at the...
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Questioning the Master
For my birthday last year, which makes it 51 weeks ago, I received a giant tome titled Seven Novels by Jules Verne. In the year since, I have slogged through Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863),...
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Fading Away?
October 7th was my 67th birthday. On that date, I posted the following article on my group, Scribblers' Den, under the title Fading Away... It was Douglas MacArthur who told us that...
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A Steampunk Looks at Nerds
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. There's a whole subset of society consisting of, well, most of you, who believe that "steampunk" is just another word for "nerd." I'll get to you shortly....
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