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To Thine Own Writing Be True

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

It’s been an interesting experience getting The Mushroom Shift ready for publication. I mean, here is a novel I wrote almost 25 years ago, and as I’m reading it, and as I’m having my Kindle read it to me as part of the proofreading process, I’m discovering something about it that I hadn’t expected. It’s [...]

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Thinking About Thinking

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I’ve had a chance to do a lot of thinking lately. Okay, technically we think all of the time. I mean creative thinking. After being a bad master for a number of years, I’ve started to walk the dog for a half an hour or so on most days, and having nothing to clutter my [...]

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Oh, Fudge!

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Where to come down on the idea of cussin’ in one’s books? I’ve gotten away from it for the most part, mostly because I’m a Christian and try hard not to use it myself. But I’ve also sat through enough TV versions of films where the language is softened, and for the most part the [...]

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Little Moments

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this entry if you have not read A Death of Honor. Payne caught up as a uniformed man with a megaphone announced that boarding was closing to check for last-minute cancellations. Trinina looked harried. The steward guarding the path looked stern. He handed her Nathan’s suitcase. “What’s the problem?” “He [...]

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Piracy on the High E’s!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I’m not sure where you come down on the issue of piracy. Not the Somalis in a speedboat with some vintage Soviet RPG type. The new-fangled method of copying intellectual property that has been the bane of folks from the members of Metallica to J.K. Rowling. And to show that nobody is safe, even I [...]

Filed under: Angels Luck Series, Desperate Measures, Other Writers, Pembroke Hall Series, The Essence of Evil, Write-O-Rama, Writer's Problems, Writing Business, Writing Life | Tagged: Write-O-Rama, Writer's Life | 7 Comments »

A Chat About Place

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

I’m going to try something here. A few days ago, a friend of mine who has decided to try and write a novel popped up in my chat window to ask a couple of questions. Instead of writing at length about the subject, I’m going to just put the transcript here and see what happens. [...]

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Curious Affectation

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Okay, somebody explain why in the heck I do this. It’s something I’ve been conscious of for years, and it never seemed to bother me until a week or so ago. That’s when I got an email that inspired this recent post. At one point, the correspondent said, I go out and buy notebooks and [...]

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The Cliff’s Notes Version of How to Be a Writer

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

A lot of my posts come from questions I get from aspiring writers struggling with some part of the writing process or another. The other day I got an email peppered with questions I had mostly already answered. However, it occurred to me that there might be others out there who, like this particular reader, [...]

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Sometimes it’s the Journey

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Longtime readers know that I’m a proponent of The Power of the Ending. In other words, if you have an appropriate, satisfying and strong ending, your readers will tend to forgive some of the gaffes you may have committed in the middle of the book. So if you’re all about commercial fiction, you’re all about [...]

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How-To Books and You: A Concise Guide to Whether or Not You Should Read a Book on How to Write

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Okay, it’s pushing past 4am. The Benadryl I took to settle my allergy has long since kicked in, but the email I decided to write to pass a few minutes turned into a monster, and so I’m going to recycle it here. A friend writes: I wanted to see if you thought that a prospective [...]

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