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The Other Stephen King on Writing: From Amazon to Smashwords
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. From Amazon to Smashwords. So excited, in fact, that I'm making my first blog post in over a month. *ahem* Sorry. If I told you about being busy with a new day job, helping my beloved launch her own blog (yay for Gluten Free With Heide. And working around the clock (ish) to get Volume 2 of Elf Queen done and ready for you - well, that would sound like excuses, and I don't like those. So I'll just say mea culpa and move on to. You got that, right?
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: A Lesson - Genres
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. A Lesson - Genres. June 2nd, to be specific. Sometimes I'll type the date into Wikipedia just to see what it comes up with. Happy Decorations Day (honoring veterans) to my Canadian friends! Happy Sack of Rome Day to my - um - never mind. The almighty genre. Find one and stick to it, they say. Write the genre you love to read, they say. Don't spread your efforts, your brand, your time too thin, they say. Oh, wait - those both failed. Recently I've ...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: Overload
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. The beast, the very King of the Jungle, tries to worry about all four legs of the chair at the same time. When he can't, he just decides that maybe there's easier dinners out there. Like, I don't know, Burger King. Somehow I expected the universe to end when I linked to wordpress.com from blogger.com, but it didn't. And that's an authorpreneur's life. Dozens of people declaring themselves candidates for the next Presidential election. Get your cop...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: Origins - Sorscha
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Yes, I'm talking about Sorscha. Sorscha the character began as a foil to the poor war god's significant other. As I explained in a previous episode, the introduction of the S.O. went through a deliberate thought process. Of course a god should own a fancy palace, right? And of course he'd have servants maintaining that palace. And the god of war? Why bring a human woman back? Think about this for a moment. If the gods were creating a race ...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: Saint Patrick's Day
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Happy St. Patty's Day! Pass the beer, would ya? I think all major holidays and celebrations have a twisty-curvy bit inside them if you hold them up to the light long enough. Saint Patrick's Day is an example that doesn't require all that much light, to be honest, being the weird sorta-religious, sorta-nationalistic, sorta-besotted global party that it is. But hey, when else can ya drink the beer that's green, eh? Saint Patrick, as most people kn...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: December 2014
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Well, hell's bells. I mean, it was just getting safe to come right out in public and opine that maybe a certain large retail web site isn't gonna to punch us authors in the face and take our kids' lunch money for sport, what after all the uber-sales authors got in the middle of what was essentially a contract negotiation between them and a major publisher, which finally. Or, at least, take our advertising money for, um, revenue. My Facebook ha...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: September 2014
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Monday, September 22, 2014. Write drunk, edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway. I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words." - Mark Twain. There comes a time in every author's life when you have to sit back, shift gears, and accept that maybe the crap you wrote in your draft-creating fervor was really just that- crap. Then, if you're really silly like me and write more than one book, you get to do it multiple times. Writing it, I had a lot ...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: June 2014
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Sunday, June 22, 2014. Been a slow month for me for blogging, and for that I apologize. While I thought that being temporarily unemployed would mean more time for writing, it hasn't quite done that. Instead, the stress of the job search and preparing to move and so on have done quite the opposite. I will, however, be happy to linky:. Http:/ electivelypaige.blogspot.com/2014/06/interview-stephen-h-king.html. The Other Stephen King. Monday, June 16, 2014. Example: I very ...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: Hating the Language
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Friday, March 27, 2015. I have a historical adventure story in my head that I'm a little bit intimidated over writing. It's not the story part; I'm getting used to that. No, it's the language. I mean, I can barely keep up with changes to the mother tongue in my own lifetime; how am I to handle it 400 years ago? Sheesh. The "mother tongue" has spawned some really strange offspring. Thanks in part to the rapidity of dissemination and complete lack of grammar check...If/wh...
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The Other Stephen King on Writing: February 2015
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The Other Stephen King on Writing. Friday, February 27, 2015. A Letter To Momma. The woman didn't mind. It amused her. In fact, she relished the part she was able to play in giving the neighborhood a touch of fresh intrigue to stir the otherwise-bored Southern souls. She made a game of it, timing the relaxation of the window curtains up and down the street while the expensive car left her driveway and headed home after the visits. I'm sorry. Can I offer you a cup of tea while I read this? I hope everythi...
