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I don’t generally post links because I don’t want to be held responsible in case, say, the domain’s owner one day drops it, it’s snatched up by a porn site (as had happened to one very near and dear to this writer’s heart) and, God forbid, little Jimmy runs across it. But I’m going to take a chance in this instance and post one anyway. It isn’t some wildly new concept or even newly made; it’s been around for a while. But it does answer a lot of ‘new writer’ questions.

Stephen King: Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully: in Ten Minutes | Facebook ...

I've been writing creatively for . . . oh, I don't know . . . like a year or a year and a half.

I'm amazed at how much I've learned about writing--and how much I have yet to learn.

I subscribe to Poets & Writers and The Writer. I've read Stephen King's On Writing as well as The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing and quite a few other books on the creative writing process. I've gleaned dozens of tips from various websites. Some of the tips and tricks that I've ...

Once in a very long while the cosmos aligns and pleasant things happen. Perhaps someone somewhere didn’t do something, which didn’t cause something, which made someone else miss whatever it was. Maybe. Whatever.

It was about a year ago when I wandered into an antique shop and happened upon an Underwood typewriter. It was a cast-iron-frame beauty—classic design, nice pin striping, glass keys, sans rust, and in pretty decent shape. Unfortunately the price wasn’t so decent, so there it ...

I think I'll start doing this blogging thing propely. Ignore the past two posts. I'm getting serious now.

*serious face*

A few years ago, I wrote 250-ish pages of an epic sci-fi/fantasy. It's unfinished, since I dropped it for another adventure, but it still stands as one of my favourite stories that I have ever written. So, I want to share it here, bit by bit, in episodic form. Perhaps going over it will make me want to write it to the end.

I hope you enjoy ...

A little excerpt for you all, this would be part of "The Rat"

"What would this institute want with a man of my abilities." Delaney asked


"You came highly recommend by General McCall." the director for the Institute for Alternative Thinking said.


"and that is the only reason I'm here, as a favor to the General. With that out of the way what can I do for you Mr. Kolb"


"In 1995, before

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