Author: KenMcConnell

How Long Did it Take You?

One of the most common questions I get about writing novels is: How long does it take you to write a whole novel? If you don’t count all the subsequent drafts and edits and only count the months it took…

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To Finish a Series

As I wind up the first draft of Starforgers, I’m already planning the third book in this Star Series:  Starveyers. In the requisite down time after a first draft, I will be working on the outline of Starveyers.  The plan is to…

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The Quiet Revolt

What if the great Android Revolt that Sci-Fi authors have always wrote about was not a bloody, doomsday event at all. What if they just didn’t want to do our laundry anymore and they all decided to leave? best online…

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Writing Update – Starforgers

I printed my novel outline for Starforgers and it was four pages long in landscape. This is the finished outline for the nearly finished novel. I’m down to the last two chapters for the first draft. It’s sitting at around…

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Twitter Posts from 2011-06-04 to 2011-06-10

New post: Slowing Down http://ken-mcconnell.com/?p=3474 2011-06-07 My Google Calendar is nearly blank this month. Compared to the last few months, it's a welcome sight. 2011-06-07 True Grit out today! 2011-06-07 My Wii has been acting up, maybe I need to…

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An Airplane Story

The other day I was at Target, picking up my copy of True Grit with a friend from work. We came upon a WW2 documentary about fighter planes. There was a Japanese plane on the cover with a six bladed…

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Narrative out of Noise

Sometimes when you are writing you do things that only your subconscious mind understands. online pharmacy buy cymbalta without prescription with best prices today in the USA Sunday I wrote a scene in my current WIP that didn’t really do much for…

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