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Adventures in Writing
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The Adventures in Fiction Writing Blog is a place where aspiring writers can come for inspiration, resources, an inside look from the trenches, and success stories. Because it is a focused team endeavor, we will do our best to offer both the published and the aspiring writer something useful, something fun, something worth writing home about.
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Hoping Doesnt Make it Possible

The book Im reading at the moment assumes some questionable scenarios, like the fact that a third world country has jumped ahead of the everyone in a particular type of technology, and nobody else kn...

22 may 11

Wish I could have met him

Have you ever read a biography and mumbled to yourself "I sure wish I could have met him". (or her)It just happened to me.I am almost done with "Fighter Pilot, The memoirs of Legendary Ac...

09 may 11

Slammed

Ive been absent from the blog recently because I am raising money for a new startup. I came up with a fantastic idea, built a prototype, and filed a provisional patent. It was a lot of work, but so f...

25 apr 11

Coffee Shop Roundup, Part III, Now with Random Snorts

   This economy blows.The writing refuge has undergone the slow dance of change. The owners of the coffee shop let go over half the baristas. The evening baristas are out—instead, the owner...

03 apr 11

Are Your Characters Real?

To a writer, this seems like an obvious question... Duh, no, they are characters, they are not real.Well thats not what I am talking about. What I am asking is could your character exists in real lif...

28 mar 11

Plot Threads

I could get really technical and describe the interaction of the characters in your plot to be like the threads of execution that occur in a computer operating system, but Im afraid that unless you a...

20 mar 11 1 person likes this

Balancing Your Writing Time

How do you balance your writing time, with your other time? Whether it be personal time, family time, work time, game time, grandkid time, heck any time... How do you do it?The only way that I can do...

13 mar 11

Am I a Dinosaur?

I still write on paper, not longhand, but I print. I know to some of you that sounds like a laborious process, but it actually works well for me.I cannot do longhand, my longhand looks like a cockroa...

07 mar 11

E-book Reader

Do you have one yet? Are you going to get one soon?In my case the answers to these are yes, and no.As I have mentioned before I have both an iPad and a Kindle. For just the pure reading experience, y...

28 feb 11

Can Dialog Be Too Fast?

Im reading a book right now and the first two chapters are basically a Prologue for what is going to happen later. Books from 50 years ago might have had a huge information dump to give all the back ...

21 feb 11

Tension

If you read writing blogs, you hear over and over about how you need to have tension in your writing. If you attend one of Donald Maass fabulous seminars, he says the same thing. In fact Donald even ...

14 feb 11

Sucking Face Killed the Stilted Puppies

Been working on a Secret Squirrel Contemporary YA novel for some time now, and today, I am puppy killer.The main character in the novel is recovering from [redacted]. I researched recovery and the su...

09 feb 11

Lone Survivor

There have been few books lately that have really had an impact on me, but this one by Marcus Luttrell hit me hard. Over the years I have had uncles in the military, a brother-in-law in Iraq, and mos...

31 jan 11

Love Affair

I love writing.I love it when my main character kisses someone for the first time. The soft lips, the visceral feel of intimacy, the scent of closeness. Does this mean that Im a hopeless mush? Too mu...

27 jan 11

Get Delirious

Yes today is the day that you can get your very own copy of Daniel Palmers new thriller Delirious. I had a chance to finish it on the plane back from the Philippines, and I have to say that it defini...

26 jan 11

NY Times Best Selling Author?

Ive said in the past that it doesnt bother me when celebrities get million dollar book deals, because as long as the book earns out the advance, and the publisher makes money, its good for everyone. ...

24 jan 11

Random wi-fi

Hey all,I have been in the Philippines for the last two weeks and not able to get WiFi access. I have been unable to post any updates, but now that I am back, I will try to provide some interesting a...

10 jan 11

eBook Thoughts and a Random Bit of Linking

So, um where did 2010 go?But I digress.ChoicesNathan Brandsford did a holiday repeat of a post he made in 2007, which was a year before I started following blogs about writing. And boy-howdy (boy-how...

05 jan 11

Taking The Plunge

Ive been threatening to do this for a while now, but I finally pulled the trigger, stepped off the cliff, lit the fuse, yanked out the pin, and a hundred other cliches for it. I hired a professional ...

27 dec 10

Have a Merry Book Chritsmas!

One year, someone close to me gave me the book Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.I had been feeling moody and blue, and probably a bit sorry for myself as teens are wont to do.I loved that book. I read ...

24 dec 10

Delirious Contest

As I mentioned last week, I will be sending a lucky someone the ARC for Daniel Palmers latest thriller Delirious. All you have to do is be the first to correctly answer a question in the comments for...

20 dec 10

Im still Delirious

In my last post I talked about Daniel Palmers upcoming new book Delirious.I finally got a few minutes to start reading the ARC and nearly choked on my Cheerios. It seems that great minds think alike....

11 dec 10

When a New Cppy of The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby

I posted a review of The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby on my blog. If you want a chance to win a new hardback copy of the book (complete with fancy The Pericles Commission bookmark!), simply head...

08 dec 10

A Contest That Will Leave You Delirious

This summer at ThrillerFest I made friends with new author Daniel Palmer. Turns out we had a lot in common, we were both aspiring authors and we both worked in the high tech area. At the time, Daniel...

06 dec 10

Editorial Letter

This summer I got to meet author John Gilstrap of No Mercy, and Hostage Zero fame. He writes a blog over at The Kill Zone. This weeks entry was quite interesting to me, because Ive always been curiou...

29 nov 10

Happy Thanksgiving!

For the Americans out there, Happy Thanksgiving from the 3.5 bloggers of Adventures in Writing!

26 nov 10

The Expression of Self

Some say writing is the ultimate form of self-expression. Language is the means in which we communicate. Thought, feeling, description, mood--all of these described with the written word. Indeed, a w...

25 nov 10

Bad Writing or Bad Acting?

To improve your craft you not only have to study what works, but also what doesnt work. The best way to see examples of what works is of course to read good novels and analyze whats good about them. ...

22 nov 10

Cheap and Easy

Its cheap! Its easy! Its...Anthonys Writer-Centric Blog Roundup!A smattering of some of the blogs I read.Tonya R. MooreWriter Tonya R. Moore kicks some major blogging ass. She is also a very good spe...

21 nov 10

I Want To Quit

I just received the rejection from hell.It wasnt a bad rejection, in fact it was very informative, but it was the fact that I got a rejection.I met the agent this summer and we hit it off at Thriller...

18 nov 10

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