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Showing posts with label writing advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing advice. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Writing Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

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Sorry I missed posting yesterday, but I was down in Madrid catching up with old friends and enjoying the cafe culture. Now I'm back in...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Helping out with National Novel Writing Month

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I've started a thread on the National Novel Writing Month website for writing a Civil War novel during NaNoWriMo . If you're wri...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Indie Life: Keeping it Real

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As indie writers we're all looking for attention, we're all looking to set ourselves apart from the pack. There are good ways a...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Guest Post: Using Real Cultures in Fantasy Fiction

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Today I've invited blogger buddy A.J. Walker to talk about his new fantasy novel, The Maze of Mist . I've guest blogged for his M...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Forging ahead with my next Civil War novel

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As I've mentioned before, I've been working on a sequel to my Civil War horror novel A Fine Likeness . I took a hiatus from writing ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Indie Life: Ramping up that wordcount

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As I've said before, I've been focusing more on fiction this year with a goal of writing 200,000 words of fiction in 2013, which s...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

A humblebrag and some free writing advice

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While writing a short story I spelled "prestidigitation" correctly on the first try. That doesn't make me a real writer. What ...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Halfway to my goal of writing 200,000 words of fiction in 2013

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As I mentioned in a previous post , one of my writing goals for 2013 is to write 200,000 words of fiction. While that sounds like a lot, it...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

More on writing in Tangier

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As I mentioned in my last post, I just got back from a writing retreat in Tangier . Not only was it hugely productive but it shifted my thin...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Back from my writing retreat in Tangier

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I'm baaaack! After ten amazing days in Tangier , I'm back in Spain. I went there on a writing retreat to work on my next book, a n...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Indie Life: Let's Stop Review Inflation

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Anyone who has been to university is familiar with the phenomenon of grade inflation: students are given better grades than they deserve i...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Guest Post: Researching a Shared World Alternate History

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Today we have an interesting guest post from an old writing buddy of mine from my Tucson days. I first met David Lee Summers at Tuscon , ...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Indie Life: How I use social media in my writing career

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Today I'm participating in the Indelibles Indie Life blog hop . On the second Wednesday of every month we talk about various aspects o...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Indie Life: Reaching Beyond the Indie Authors' Echo Chamber

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Today I'm participating in the Indelibles Indie Life blog hop . On the second Wednesday of every month we talk about various aspects o...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Civil War Horror blog wins the Liebster Award!

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O.K., it ain't the Oscars, but this still makes me happy. Blogger buddy Sapper Joe over at Sapper Joe's Wargaming & Toys has ...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

GUEST POST: Civil War Mystery: Objects in photographs are closer than they appear

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Today I have an interesting guest post by Kathryn Hohmann, author of the Civil War novel Soldiers Rest , which like my own novel features ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Guest blogging about Weaving Military History Into Fiction over at Osprey Publishing

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My military history publisher Osprey Publishing has been kind enough to let me do a guest post about Weaving Military History Into Fiction ....
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Fantasy ebook sale and writing tips

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It's a sunny weekend here in Santander and we're enjoying the last few beach days before the winter sets in. I still have time to ma...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Rewriting a battle scene

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I got back into the next novel of the House Divided series, of which A Fine Likeness was the first. As I mentioned before, travel and a n...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

When does a writer know if he's stretching himself too thin?

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I've been hugely busy the past couple of weeks working on is the artist's references for my next Osprey Publishing book. This one i...
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