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Monday, February 25, 2013

Continuity, Clarity, and Crispness

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I’m making pre-editing revisions to my latest book . I want to share my goals for a final pass-through for any of my books. After I have t...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

John C.H. Grabill, Renown Western Photographer

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"Branding cattle" Six cowboys branding cattle in front of a house. 1891 Last week I posted "Preserving Western cult...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

robertpeecher Reviews The Shopkeeper

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Robert Peecher is a journalist and author of  the Jackson Speed Memoirs . He has posted a blog article about indie-publishing and incl...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Characters Matter

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Frank. A true black hat villain. Characterization is a crucial aspect of fiction. We know this because it's drilled into us a...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Preserving Western culture through photography

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Don Schimmel Photography There are many ways to preserve our Western Culture. I prefer books, of course. I have no visual or musical...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

I Hate Punctuation

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I love editors. The reason I love editors is they save me from embarrassment. I make errors and typos with punctuation and seem to miss ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

It all depends on how you look at it—Point of View

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I’m reading a thriller from a big name author. It’s a bestseller published under a Simon & Schuster imprint. Yeah, I found a few typ...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Evolution of a Novel

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I just spent a week writing and surfing in San Diego. The writing went well, the surfing not so much. The weather was crappy for three day...