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100 Haiku for the Gamer’s Thumbs: 1-4

Press to Begin All gamers know you Button that starts and pauses Our lives owe you much * Where Many of Us Began Blinking lights and noise Where tickets flow like water We whetted our thumbs *  Tools of Our … Continue reading →

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New Type of Ball

Joyous prize from park A new ball to roll around Not allowed to throw

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What Do You Look For in a Flashback?

One of the biggest tools for an author is the flashback.  These can help reveal information about a character, place, or situation.  For the few that don’t know what this is, you move the attention of the book from the … Continue reading →

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Family in Fantasy

Family. It’s a strange topic that doesn’t get brought a lot in Fantasy discussions.  Sure, you talk about the family of characters in a book that deals with political intrigue and revenge killings.  Yet, you still talk about them as … Continue reading →

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Calling All Artists! Calling All Artists!

Do I have your attention? I’m writing to let all authors, poets, musicians, painters, and any artist types that I forgot! The Community Storyboard is a new and exciting blog where you can submit your work and have it showcased.  … Continue reading →

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What Do You Look for in Child Protagonists?

In my opinion, one of the most difficult things to write is a child protagonist in a book that isn’t made for children.  It’s difficult for adults to relate to the child and many adults find them annoying.  As we … Continue reading →

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Briefly on Review Ratings

I noticed something about the overall rating for a book on Amazon. The one that needs to stay at 4.0 for some advertising sites to work with you. It’s. a simple fact: It’s utter bullshit. Seriously, you can’t get a … Continue reading →

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Welcome to . . .

This is going to be a fun (possibly disastrous) tease at a few fictional worlds.  Here we go and I apologize in advance: If you live in a world the size of Australia where chicken are invulnerable to swords and … Continue reading →

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What Do You Look for in a Humorous Villain?

Now, we’ve seen villains with a sense of humor in comics (Joker), cartoons (Hades), and comedies (Dark Helmet).  You can obviously have a villain with a sense of humor that is goofy, sarcastic, or twisted.  They can still be effective … Continue reading →

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Battle to the Death . . . Or Not

“My head is killing me,” Nyx groans as her eyes open. She looks around the large room to see that she’s not alone and her roommates are starting to wake up.  A long-haired girl with vampire fangs zips to the … Continue reading →

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