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Writers and Writing | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. Archive for the ‘Writers and Writing’ category. March 4th, 2014. Do you try to ‘rein in’ or ‘reign in’ an abuse of power? If you chose the latter, you are incorrect–but you have good company. More people seem to be falling prey to incorrect usage of homophones (words that sound the same) as the original meaning of words and phrases fades from memory. Whoops, we may already be there! Retreat to Go Forward. December 28th, 2009. Sword, Staff, and Chalice. November 19th, 2009.
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Fiction | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. Archive for the ‘Fiction’ category. Ordning and Old Magic Excerpt #1. November 13th, 2010. Here’s a relatively short scene from my National Novel Writing Month project in progress,. Ordning and Old Magic. No wonder this Maldin travels to sup and drink in an alehouse less conveniently located than this one. The door to the room was locked and the window was dark. My best student was a fighter named Carnic, the old man had told him once. He practiced constantly in his m...
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Libraries | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. June 30th, 2010 by David. Leave a reply ». One of my favorite moments was when our school librarian handed me. A Wizard of Earthsea. A book she’d gotten in and had heard was good. (It was years after it had come out, but this was a very small town in a remote and poor county. We were the last to find out about cool things.) What a wonderful discovery that was! Might as well take advantage of it! Of course, the library system isn’t as healthy as when I was a kid. State...
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The Wrath of Dying Empires | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. The Wrath of Dying Empires. October 6th, 2009 by David. Leave a reply ». Although I write speculative fiction, I look for interesting stories in the modern world. I have no choice but to do so. When I was a young writer, I didn’t have the life experience to write novels I could write short stories but I couldn’t sustain anything longer. I needed to look outward and see more of the world, and I also needed to experience more. Taking a macro view, the current death throes o...
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reader feedback | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. Posts Tagged ‘reader feedback’. October 22nd, 2009. I finished the second draft of my novel. This week, which means only one thing: it’s time to ask for your help. Dear Reader, I am looking for test readers willing to honestly critique my book. If you’re a lover of young-at-heart fantasy, a connoisseur of books in general, or a cynical curmudgeon convinced all tales written after. Here’s a brief summary of the book to help you decide if you want to chance reading it:.
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Retreat To Go Forward - David Clemens Lee | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. Retreat to Go Forward. December 28th, 2009 by David. Leave a reply ». Sword, Staff, and Chalice. On Yuletide Eve, which was a nice present. Starting with a plot that was fairly solid but had some gray areas in it, I wrote 120,000 words in under two months, which is a good pace for me. The first draft has been described as a ‘page turner’ by its intrepid first reader (I haven’t even re-read the book myself yet), which is something no one said about. Well, I’m thoroug...
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Writing Ahead | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. September 23rd, 2009 by David. Leave a reply ». Back in my pantser days, I would start writing a story with only the foggiest idea of how it would end. I might start with an image, a character, a situation, whatever I found interesting. Then I’d see where it would lead. And sometimes it worked. They’re not all this detailed, but they have enough information to make writing out the actual scenes a writing task rather than a plotting task. Of Goals and Word Counts. I encoun...
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library | David Clemens Lee
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Speculative Fiction and Musings. Posts Tagged ‘library’. June 30th, 2010. One of my favorite moments was when our school librarian handed me. A Wizard of Earthsea. A book she’d gotten in and had heard was good. (It was years after it had come out, but this was a very small town in a remote and poor county. We were the last to find out about cool things.) What a wonderful discovery that was! Might as well take advantage of it! Of course, the library system isn’t as healthy as when I was a kid. State, ...
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