Tag Archives: writing
Writing/Editing Advice for the Day
Don’t consult an editor who uses the word literally to mean not literally. I just read a blog post in which the blogger, someone who feels he has ‘found his niche’ as a giver of ‘expert’ advice on writing/publishing, tells … Continue reading
(forget)
(I couldn’t come up with an actual title for this post, so you’ll have to be content with the working title/label I used originally.) …So there was a blog post, and although it contained some stuff certainly worth considering if … Continue reading
Announcement about “that novel” (*)
Friends, we have artwork: If you’ve read Paul’s previous novels, you may recall the Amundsen being mentioned in The Madness Engine. Here are a couple of paragraphs from that portion of the novel: One of the towers stood empty, but … Continue reading
*drinks coffee… picks up red pen*
Monday afternoon, my clone-sibling (*wonders if this means Paul is also able to wield the Red Pen of Doom — y’know, just in case*) handed over the manuscript for the fifth book of The Awakening series. Notice that I’m not … Continue reading
WRITING UPDATE: 12-11-2020
The clone is letting his latest completed manuscript sit until January before he goes back through it with a final round of revisions. And… he has gone back to working on “that novel,” which has an actual working title now: … Continue reading
“What’s the worst thing that could happen…?”
Those of you who read Paul’s novels will be happy to know that he has just passed one hundred twenty-seven thousand words on the first draft of the fifth/final book of The Awakening (a.k.a. the Tebrey novels). He was writing … Continue reading
Another well-reasoned tirade AGAINST ‘Thou Shalt Not Use Adverbs!’
This is an old (from 2017!) tirade against the anti-adverb nonsense so common in “internet wisdom” on writing, and I’d somehow forgotten to share it before, so… The most common argument I’ve seen against the use of adverbs (*) amounts … Continue reading
North of Andover 