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So. It appears I haven’t posted anything here since February 2013. That’s …. a long time, isn’t it? I believe I’ve spent most of that time over on Twitter, which I much prefer to any other form of social media. I shall try to be over here more often now….

Flying by the seat of your pants is old aviation slang for flying by instinct, by how it feels rather than using your (at the time rudimentary) tech instruments. In the writing world, starting your book with no plot pre-planning, just putting pen to paper and seeing where you go,…

I love the stuff one can find when researching in old newspapers. I also love that humans have been fascinated by cats and dogs cuddling for centuries. This would have been on I Can Has Cheezburger if it took place today.

So now you know how you’re going to write. You’ve got your pen or your keyboard. What now? Most Craft-Of-Writing books are full of useless advice. Don’t put in excess information (info dump). Yeah, obviously. But if you’re a beginner, how do you recognize what’s excess and what’s not? Don’t…

I was asked a very long time ago to post some advice about writing for beginning authors. This is more difficult than it sounds. Writing is… Okay, I’m not going to say it’s a mystical experience that can’t be pinned down, or that it’s something one does and cannot be…

Kitty to the rescue.

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National Novel Writing Month. Every year I think about doing it. I even joined the website. But I never have got around to participating – until now. This year I’m going to try it. I am. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Y’see, I write slowly. Really, really slowly….

It’s Halloween. And when many people think Halloween, they think Salem, Massachusetts. Because it’s basically our Mardi Gras. Want to know practically everything there is to know about Salem? From witches to how a Salem boy became a Chinese god, to where the Murder of the Century occurred, and including…