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Why I Don’t Like Story Outlines

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I’m one of those writers…the kind that doesn’t use an outline. I’ve tried using outlines. Oh, how I’ve tried using outlines! I’ve even been vaguely successful a few times. When I wrote independent comic books, I outlined. For series stuff I’ve worked on, I make notes that could be deemed outlines. Rough outlines, but outlines […]

Sunday Randomness

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Last month, I started a new novel — the first time I set out to write something with the goal of going straight to an e-book. It’s a young adult (YA) story called Old Man, and it looks like it will probably be a novella. I say probably because I just might have the first […]

Writing Without Copyright

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I have a friend who is rather fond of anarcho-capitalism. (I am not an anarcho-capitalist, but I’ll always listen to other people and their views.) A year ago, he challenged me to imagine a world without copyright. At first I thought, “I am all about copyright!” but the more I thought about it…I realized…I really […]

April Showers…

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It’s with a heavy heart that I’m announcing this morning — after 327 entries, here — that I’ve come to an end with The Juggling Writer. I think I’m done with all writing, in fact. No more blog entries, articles, or novels. I’m just out of ideas, and I like working a day job so […]

The Book Pile: The Night Swimmer Review

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I’ll skip the normal lead in to this review and say this: Amazon.com reviews had me almost reluctant to actually pick up Matt Bondurant’s The Night Swimmer (affiliate link). The general consensus seemed to be, “Hey, this is well written, but not very clear — and the ending just comes out of nowhere. Just FOOM! […]

The (Writing) Power in Observation

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Last week, I spent an evening watching a group of women in 18th century costumes drink wine and play cards. My wife’s big hobby is historical costuming, and one of her friends decided to have friends over for dinner and games…dressed in costumes from the 1700s. There were more than the four people necessary to […]

Don’t Answer Every Question

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While I’ve been busy juggling work, writing, and life, I’ve decided to set A Magic Life aside and write a novel that’s not so demanding of deep attention. Like Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors, this novel was a screenplay first, which means I have one hell of an outline to work from and no reason […]

Mark Hosack’s Identity Problem

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While I have a bit of a hard time speaking up for my own writing, I have no problems promoting others doing things I like and believe in. Meet Mark Hosack The first time I met Mark Hosack I thought, “Okay, maybe my haircut ISN’T so bad after all!” It was a kickoff meeting for […]

Kickstarting a Relaunch

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On Sunday, I mentioned that I did a very poor job promoting Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors (HCWWPD). I tossed it out there and that was that. The interesting thing about the Internet is writers have a chance to follow up with promoting things. Used to be — a book came out and there […]

Promoting Your Writing

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It’s not too hard to put out an e-book. Sure, it takes work to write a novel, but as far as turning that into an e-book — even I figured it out pretty fast. The tough thing is promoting what you’re doing. There, I can do much better. A Couple Cases Shawn Kupfer Shawn Kupfer […]