Tag: fiction
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Book one, Chapter one sample
New and improved – the pic above is the field in the story. Route 40 is above and rt 70 below. Boxed in. Bret and the boys are at the top of blue bordered field. Chapter 1 A Glimmer Through the Mist 06/15/24 – Nine Days Post-China Invasion Fifteen days into the American Civil War.…
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Surviving
This isn’t a Rambo blood and guts routine!(The main character/protagonist, Bret Gordon, speaking to a reporter outside enemy-held Illinois.)“As a teenager, I loved Red Dawn, Arnold movies, and John J. Rambo.” “He was larger than life. Vietnam veteran, Ex-Special Forces (Green Beret), winner of the MOH.” “And those knives.” “The whole package they put together,…
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Info Dumps
I am currently re-writing my first book! I felt that I was finished with it. Ready for an editor but one person’s review did it for me. I know he didn’t even read much. He probably didn’t even make it through the first page from how it sounded. All because of an info dump. Yup!…
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Accustomed to
After the world as you know it has turned to shit you start noticing things that you and you’re body is becoming accustomed to. America hasn’t quite completely collapsed. Free America is still running albeit a slimmed down version of the U.S., approximately 24-25 states. The State governments and Governors have miraculously pledged their support…
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Resist
In the Reason its humanity based. meaning an outside force, the Communist Chinese for example, wants to snuff out or change our fundamental ability to live or how we live as an American. The secessionist socialist conglomerates are the inside force actively trying to do the same as the outside force because they don’t think…
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Community
Will it be there when you need it? What is community? By definition 1. It’s a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Example, “the scientific community” 2. A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals. “The sense of…
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Google Maps!
When I first started writing I didn’t think too hard about the path that the protagonist would take. What route. Heck I’m a pantser not a planner. I write down ideas and start out with a rough outline of ideas for maybe the first so many chapters. Then I let the story take over. I…
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Keep moving forward
We creep forward, the tension in the air palpable. Rounds snap overhead, some uncomfortably close. The sound of bullets tearing through the air is unsettling, but you don’t stop. You keep moving forward, keep returning fire, or you risk becoming one of the fallen. I can feel the temptation to drop and curl up, to…
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Working with a collaborator.
This could be a professional editor, beta reader that’s a friend or family member. It could be a paid beta reader or your significant other reading through your work and giving you their two cents. This could be you reading to someone. Whatever it is that you do and you get feedback from someone about…
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Deciding to write a book.
I’ve never thought I would be in this position in a million years. In under two years, I have written almost five books. The fifth is nearly finished, and I started the sixth book this morning. Oddly enough, I haven’t even had my first manuscript edited professionally yet. I’ve edited it (multiple times), as did…
The Reason Novel Series 