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Novel Strategery

Yeah, behind on the novel because of the Election but not too bad. I think I will be able to catch up today.
I have two significant problems with novel writing. The first is that the grand vision of story is hard to break down into tiny details. So I have a hard time writing, because [...]

Stephen King is a menace

Well, he may or may not be. I don’t know if it was lack of sleep, stress, the green tomatillio chile from Chipotle, the _remarkably gruesome_ passage from the latest Stephen King novel I was listening to, or some odd combination all those things but today on the road I was overcome by cold sweats, [...]

Talisman

I like to listen to books more than read them, AWMLA(About Which More Later Also). Right now I am trying to finish Stephen King and Peter Straub’s _The Talisman_. I have been trying to finish this book for days and days.
Now, I think Stephen King is an absolute master of the craft, but if King was [...]

More on Polygeek Test

Well, it looks like most of the scores are hovering between 0% and 50%. Which means I probably have the test tuned properly. On the other hand, it also means there are four responses that just aren’t getting any play.
If you want to take the test go here. If you just want to read all [...]

About books, covers, and marketing.

OK, here’s the plain honest truth. I am turned off by advertising. I am turned off by marketing. And I am turned off by publicity stunts. The heavier a push is to get me to see/read/consume something, the more resistence I have to seeing, reading, or consuming it. It’s pig-headed stubbornness, really. If you get [...]

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