Thursday, May 17, 2018

Mud in Your Eye

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On my movie blog I like to joke that I write my film reviews and commentaries—especially the ones dealing with the Academy Awards—while dru...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

The Write Stuff

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A reader has been very kind to seek me out about writing advice. Specifically, he asked how I center myself and clear my thoughts prior to w...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Fitness of Character

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How do writers come up with their characters? The suspicion with novelists—especially first-time ones—is that their protagonists are thin...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The First Hurdle

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The good news that I have now written nine chapters of my next book. The bad news is that five of them are Chapter 1 and four of them are...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Art of the Sequel

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In my previous post I explained in a fair amount of detail how my first novel Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead came about. There is no nee...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Percolation

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So I survived another winter solstice, another Christmas, another New Year. The dark end of the annual journey around the sun is past, and t...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Reindeer Games

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By far the cheapest entertainment available on the internet is your search engine. There are endless hours of enjoyment to be had simply by ...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Happy Birthday Again, Dallas

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Has it been a whole year already? Yes, it has. It was one year ago today that I revealed to the world at large that December 7 is—in additio...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Other Bildungsromans Are Available

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Okay, so maybe my novel about young male friendship (or its sequel) has not yet been made into a movie, but I know that there is an audience...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

As I was saying...

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Are you getting tired yet of me going on about the new book? Of course, you’re not. I haven’t even posted anything on this book blog for ...