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Toof Fairy
Someone tell me if this has already been made into a horror movie. It sounds familiar. A friend suggested a story idea while we were goofing around, but it’s one that’s really stuck with me. The tooth fairy takes kids teeth because there’s a bit of youth stuck to the tooth that the fairy can…
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Bravado
The scenes I have the most trouble writing are men posturing. I blame fantasy for this. It is one of the most used scenes in classic fantasy when two alpha males begin barking at each other and bumping chests. It also reads like the stereotypical nerd living in his parents’ basement writing the hero he…
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A Self-(pub)-Study
Joseph Garrety spent the last month reading only self-published work. He blogged about his findings. I think this is a very good assessment and doesn’t show a bias one way or the other. (Though I expect I would be far less forgiving on the lack of quality. I am equally harsh with traditionally published works…
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It’s a Start
Thanks to Ted Cross and Liz Poole for pointing out that it wasn’t just people not being able to find comments but that comments weren’t working. Seems there was a change in Blogger’s comment form since this template was made that prevented comments from working. That has been fixed. What hasn’t been fixed is adding…
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How to Comment
So this new template I’m using doesn’t put the comment link on the front page. You have to click on 0 Comments and then click on comment. I will fix it when I have some free time. I notice that I’ve received NO comments since I made the switch. Thing is, other than that and…
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Oh, you’re a writer?
I stopped telling people I write fantasy unless they directly ask what I write. Even then, they get that masked look on their face like they’re trying their damndest to hide their disdain. That or they had a sudden bout of diarrhea they were fending off. Any more, really, I don’t like telling people I’m…
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A Double! (The War Makers)
Man, I’m not having the best luck with names today. Discussing whether it’s okay to be happy about the death of Osama Bin Laden (short answer: yes, yes it is), I had an idea for another story. Not sure if it would be novel length. Maybe short story or novella. I think there’s more than…
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The Invisibles
I stayed up late last night, so I think I’ve mentioned a little of this before but I will start from the beginning so I can organize these ideas for later reference. Up the street from where I lived, there was a small utility company office. This is strange in that AmerenUE has a monopoly…
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Better Late than Never?
I have SO many thoughts going through my head, some of them articulate, some of them…not. I remember where I was, what I said, what I thought when the towers fell. When we went to war. When we diverted personnel to a second war that would take the life of someone I care about. And…
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God’s (Book) Country
So I’ve had two really good posts all week but I’ve been so busy at work. In my off hours, I’ve been spending time at Book Country. It’s a place for authors, aspiring and successful, to gather and share and critique. It reminds me of Authonomy without the used-car mentality or critique.org with less strict…