6 hours ago by siderealview

January with the Gremlins Wormholes in Time -- a dominant theme of my ABNA 2012 entry, 'Coco Bay: the Awakening' Earlier in the year — mid-January, to be exact — I was panicking slightly because some of my blogging buddies were focusing not just on producing their regular blogs, but also doing edits ...

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6 hours ago by broken biro

(one of the) broken biro 'techniques' There's plenty of useful advice about writing a novel 'out there'. I have at least half a dozen books telling me the BEST way to construct a plot and write a best-seller - all of which are wildly different from each other. I'll do a separate post on them. But me ...

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7 hours ago by Greg

I think that this novel is somewhat misnamed as the widow, while an important character, is not really the main character. Set in medevil times and a backdrop of The Crusades a group of fools working for the Guild are stationed throughout Europe working behind the scenes. Those you might commonly vi ...

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8 hours ago by Felonious Monk

Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray My rating: 5 of 5 stars (NOT A CAUSAL LIGHT READ!) I often compare books to food, some are snacks, meals, a feast, etc. Lanark: A Life in 4 Books is a carnivores dream, this book is all meat. It’s 560 pages of metaphors, similes, and a twisted reality that ...

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10 hours ago by admin

Question by elpasoblueyes: What abbreviations are used before the page (if listed) in an in-text citation? Best answer: Answer by Used_to_knowIt depends on the citation system you’re using. Basically, most any system is ok if you’re consistent (and your teacher/professor hasn’t TOLD you which style ...

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11 hours ago by Joey

All the characters are set up now. The plot is finally kicking in. Does that make you happy? I hope that makes you happy. It was a mounted snake-boy, severed at the torso, its face and shoulder-snakes posed in a flamboyantly vicious manner, reaching out much farther into the air in the middle of the ...

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11 hours ago by ekobor

Lets follow a theme, I guess. Now don't go getting all worried on me, I've had this book on hold for a while, coincidence brings it so close to the last one (considering I read the last one three weeks ago, this one last week, whatevs.) Anyway: Cut, by Patricia McCormick, copyright 2000, published b ...

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14 hours ago by Luke Reynolds

Today, I wrote a pivotal scene in a novel in progress. It's a novel that has seen two full re-writes already, and is now in its third round of reworking. It's the kind of scene that changes everything--redefines who's "bad" and "good" in the novel--makes the stakes higher, more tragic, more painful. ...

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16 hours ago by Simon

“An Available Man,” by Hilma Wolitzer, is a comic novel about late-in-life dating. Summary: In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. ...

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1 day ago

Hell and Earth: A Novel of the Promethean Age By Elizabeth Bear is an alternate history story involving William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. It is the fourth book in the Promethean Age series. It is also the second half of a story that started in Ink and Steel. If you haven't read the first ...

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