Tag: random musings
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Inserting Real Details
A lot of authors do it. Some are sneaky about it because they don’t want to be sued by a conglomerate like, say, those who might be thought of as wearing mouse ears, or perhaps others who are associated with the golden arches. Many companies are very touchy about how their products are represented. And…
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Fictiophilia – an IWSG Post
Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? Sad to say, yes, I have. And to be fair, most people have. There are few people in this world who haven’t fantasized about someone. Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Zoe Washburne, Velma Dinkly, Cole Brookstone, Harry Dresden… the list goes on. I bet if you…
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ISWG March Post
March 1 Question: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out? Heh. I have a trilogy that I started when I was 12 and finished when I was 27. Each book runs in the neighborhood of 100,000 words. I’d like to think that it shows determination and…
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Bad Days
I’ve been having a run of bad days that have been ceaselessly piling up on top of each other. I can track the most recent and notable ones back to about October 2016, and the bigger, even more obvious ones indicating something was not on the level at about February 2016, but the discreet events…
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IWSG Post
I’m taking a tap-out today. My head is in a less than awesome space. So we shall answer this month’s hot, HOT, SIZZLING HOT IWSG 1st Wednesday prompt: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader? Badly, sad to say. I’m very detail-oriented by nature. I may have ranted about that in…
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Looking at How I’m Going to Get There
One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…
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