Describing a character in your story is usually an easy task. After all, you can see the character clearly in your mind. It’s as if this person is real and standing right in front of you. He might even speak to you, allowing you to hear the sound of his voice. Let’s say, in this…
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Fiction Writing, Guest Posts, Writing
Writing: To Impress or to be Understood? – Guest Post by Brian O’Hare
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• •A teacher of English literature was lecturing a class of adolescents on one of the syllabus’s prescribed modern novels. She selected a short passage which included the following two sentences: “Vanessa’s passage was impeded by the building’s front door. The door was blue.” She read the sentences aloud and said to the class, “What did…
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Researching Nanotechnology, Weapons, & the Muslim World – Guest Post by Mark J. Donovan
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• •Waterkill is a high-tech thriller that weaves a story around nanoscience and fanatical religious terrorism. This gripping story takes place on three continents. It’s a thrill of a ride that you won’t want to step off of once you open its cover and turn the first page. It took me only about four months of…
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What My Son Has Taught Me – Guest Post by Debbie Roppolo
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The Story Behind Someone Save Me & The Eidolon Tempest – Guest Post by Jason Lewis
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Legend Behind the Jack-o’-Lantern – Guest Post by Stephen Helmes
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• •With Halloween right around the corner, everywhere we look we see the orange and black color scheme, decorations of skeletons, ghouls, witches, and ghosts. When you go into the city, you see store aisles and occasionally entire stores dedicated in celebration of the darkest holiday of the year. On this day of vampires, witches, and…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts, Zombie Fiction
Zombies Can Be Fun! – Guest Post by Stephen Helmes
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Restoring the Scare Factor – Guest Post by Michael Bray
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• •The literary incarnation of the vampire has changed significantly over the last few years. Gone is the eerie, long shadow casting creeping of Max Scheck’s portrayal of Nosferatu, lost is the sophisticated charm and bloodlust evoked by greats such as Bela Lagosi and Christopher Lee to such great effect. It seems the current public image…
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Bio-Chemical Electrical Discharge – Guest Post by Tegon Maus
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• •Are you a SLIder? Do you have H.V.S.? In my Sci-Fi series, The Eve Project, Ben Harris is and does. He destroys any unshielded electronics, sets fire to ATMs, coffee machines, and unwittingly sends devastating arcs of electricity to anything metal. He suffers from B.C.E.D. He has spent his entire life trying to hide his…
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Writing Religious Fiction: How Far is Too Far? – Guest Post by Denver Batiste
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• •When you think of religious fiction, what authors come to mind? The obvious, of course, are the most famous: Dan Brown. Lynn Austin. Ted Dekker. Anne Rice has even delved into the subject. Over the past decade, religious fiction has become more popular and has steered the literary world into a territory that was seldom…