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Lack of enthusiasm
I don’t know where it came from, or how it reached me, but like a Ninja in the night, it crept up on me, unaware and BANG, slammed the flying star into my eyes. It left me gropping on the ground, blind and lost. My hands digging the dirt as I searched for what had been ripped from me, pocketed and pinched. My soul. My enthusiasm. How could this happen? And where is the magic … Read entire article »
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Editing The Armageddon Shadow
Editing Editing Editing Editing Editing Editing Editing Editing Know what I mean? The Armageddon Shadow is half completed and I have edited away 6,000 words, so novel is now down to 100,000 words but I am aiming for 95,000 as a final word count. The book has been through so many edits, it’s just not funny. This beast started at 132,000 words and contained two unneeded story lines, and yes they did tie in together at the end, but I figured they weren’t really needed and too many characters could be distracting. I sure didn’t want to put an Appendix in the back listing characters and background LOL. Oh well, back to the grind. My short story writing is taking a break so I can complete the editing of this novel and then I will look at … Read entire article »
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Excerpt from Resurrection Child
writer113 on June 23rd, 2008 I am busy editing my latest book, a Cthulhu Mythos work and came across a description I enjoyed. I thought you might like it as well: The meeting room stretched out around him reminding him of school halls where the head master stood up every Monday morning and discussed matters, not that Damon ever listened. Soft mats covered the floor. Adorning the walls were large scale paintings of Cthulhu and the Old Ones, some looked like scaly beasts and others stick insects with bloated bellies. But the main dude, Cthulhu, was a mean looking bastard. He stood erect, had two feet and two arms and an upper torso almost human. The skin wasn’t smooth in the slightest. It reminded him of a scaly dragon he had seen … Read entire article »
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