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Abandoning The First Novel To Write A Newer Novel?

June 29, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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Several years ago I set out to write my first novel within a year, following a broad outline and writing several pages a day. A year and one week later, I had finished writing the rough draft in 2008. Alas, a rough draft it remains to this day. My first novel about video game testers [...]

Keeping A Secret Writing Identity In Silicon Valley

April 28, 2011 by · Comments Off
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When I became serious about writing five years ago, I did Google search on my name before I started submitting my short stories. Lo and behold, there was another person with my name who claimed to be a writer; he hadn’t published much—if anything at all—from what I can tell. I decided to combine the [...]

The Emotional Baggage That A Male Reader Brings To The Novel

March 31, 2011 by · 2 Comments
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Several months ago I started downloading free fiction ebooks from Amazon for the Kindle App on my iPod Touch. I normally don’t read fiction ebooks since I’m a dead tree traditionalist who prefer flipping the pages of paperbacks. Two years of unemployment and three months of being underemployed doesn’t leave much money for buying stacks [...]