Tag: a tree
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Secret Passages
There are few things I like better in adventure storytelling than secret passages. In fact, the two middle grade novels I have in mind (one written, one started a few times but never finished) both are heavily reliant on secret passages. I think that’s a dream of a lot of kids, to live in a…
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Visual Aid
Yesterday’s comments inspired a visual aid that I think best communicates one’s goal of publishing and the routes available to you via traditional publishers and self-publishing. Traditional Publishing Self-Publishing
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A Tree is Just a Tree
Way back when, I meant to pursue a career in the United States military. At first I thought the navy and then found my place with the army. I was in an ROTC program, but because I had not started from the beginning, I was required to go to Camp Challenge (or basic camp). It’s…
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At the End of All Things
More and more often, one of the arguments against ebooks I’m hearing is: When society collapses and there is no more power to charge the ebook or run the servers or what have you, I’ll be happy with my paper books. It’s a hyperbolic example, but not for the reasons I think they’re intending. I…
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Look at the Tree
I am 5′ 7″. I have been told since I stopped growing1 that I am short. I am not short. The tallest person in my family after me is 5′ 1″. I am six inches taller than anyone else in my family. I am tall. When someone tells me I am short, (s)he is not…
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Finding New Meaning in Old Emotions
A scenario. Your character has: Given up professional and post-graduate dreams to aid a friend Moved to a new city to aid said friend Then been let down by said friend Which resulted in the loss of your character’s entire circle of friends, who had really been said friend’s friends Only speaks to his ex-fiancee…
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My people, they have but one bunghole
Extra extra extra tired today. Thus I talk to anyone and everyone to keep myself awake. This does not lead to quality work, but does lead to some fun creativity. Follow this thought process: I’m talking to my friend Michelle. She says she needs to go eat lunch before she passes out. I keep talking…
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I’ll Make a Bajillion Dollars!
So, as we all know, the reason there is still resistance to the ebook is because some people worry about losing their pretension. How can one prove that one is better than those around one if they cannot see that the book one is reading is clearly far beyond the reading level of everyone else…
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A Matter of Perspective
My wife and I were passing through Greeley Park a number of years back during a summer art fair. Painters, photographers, and home jewelers displayed their wares. This was back at a time when my then-employer continued to promise me an office. When I passed a small photograph that I absolutely loved and it was…