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How I Use Scrivener to Write a Novel Part Two

Part One This is the second part of my two part blog post on using Scrivener to write a novel. I covered some useful things in part one, so if you haven’t read that yet you might want to, it…

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Writing Books I’m Reading

Every writer should be constantly reading about his craft or taking classes on improving his writing skills. This year I blew my budget on going to Norwescon, so I won’t be doing any more seminars. But that doesn’t mean I…

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Starveyors Update, 23 April 2012

Photo Credit: Oliver Hammond via Compfight After taking a few weeks off from the novel, I’m back to writing again as of this weekend. Saturday I read through the last few chapters I had written and then that evening I…

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Wind in My Sails Again

Photo Credit: darwin Bell via Compfight I’ve made my way out of the mid-novel doldrums and my sails are filling out. I’m still only at 46% complete, but I’ve moved out of the funk I was in with the story….

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WIP – Mid Novel Doldrums

I spent some time this weekend adjusting my outline for the next four chapters. I need to do it all again in a few weeks to stay on course. Outlines are living documents that change as you write your novel….

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Writing About Starfighters, Part 1

This is the first part of a long, multi-post series on writing believable starfighters in Military SF and Space Opera. Too often writers don’t have an extensive knowledge of military vehicles and when they write Military SF that involves hardware,…

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Writing Commences

This weekend I started writing my fourth novel. It is the prequel to Starstrikers and it will be called Starforgers. This novel was attempted many years ago and then abandoned.  I used the opening that I already had written when…

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Another Short Story

I wrapped up the last short story, “Slag” and started in on another. best online pharmacy with fast delivery buy promethazine online with the lowest prices today in the USA This one does not yet have a name but I…

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