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FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE: PICK A CHARACTER AND GO, GO, GO

Posted on August 31, 2015 by D.R.Sylvester

Hello peoples. Here’s the follow up to last week’s Flash Fiction challenge set at Chuck Wendig’s blog – Terribleminds. That one was all about writing a 250 word character description, or a short scene introducing a fresh character. THIS WEEK we’ve been given … Continue reading →

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FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE: TIME TO CREATE A CHARACTER

Posted on August 21, 2015 by D.R.Sylvester

Hello all. Here’s a quick Flash Fiction bit I’ve bashed together for a challenge set on Chuck Wendig’s blog – Terribleminds. The gist of it is to write a 250 word character description, or a short scene introducing a fresh … Continue reading →

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Pickled Zombies and Skull-splatting Madness. NOVELLA REVIEW: The Last Safe Place, by Rob Hart

Posted on June 23, 2015 by D.R.Sylvester

I’m a simple guy. I like beer, explosions and zombies. There are other predictable predilections: bacon, beards, fantasy novels of sufficient girth to club an unsuspecting librarian into submission… Unless said librarian is a red-head with a one word, three … Continue reading →

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I Have no Aversion to Good Novellas. REVIEW: Aversion, by Ernie Luis

Posted on June 23, 2015 by D.R.Sylvester

I suddenly remembered that today is the day a particularly rad novella is released, and so here’s my review of same. I’m particularly keen to see more of this author’s work (my reviews for the first two novellas in this … Continue reading →

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Test Reader Comments Back! Plenty to do, but no disasters

Posted on January 1, 2015 by D.R.Sylvester

So, my fantastic alpha reader (love you, mum) has just gotten back to me with her thoughts on the first sixteen chapters (about a quarter of the current length. VERDICT: 1st 9 chapters = great! The others = not so … Continue reading →

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Writing Characters

Posted on October 9, 2014 by D.R.Sylvester

I’ve been thinking a lot more about characters as I edit, because it’s one thing I can probably never refine enough. Here are the points that I’m really focussing on with mine these days. (Pic kind of unrelated by the … Continue reading →

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Good Characters, Sporting Events, and where the hell did that weekend go?

Posted on October 5, 2014 by D.R.Sylvester

So, another Monday, and the final weeks until Babytime are upon us. Tecccchnically it’s a long weekend, but I had a half-day last week so I figure I’ve already taken my day off. Last week also contained the bizarre moment of … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Challenge: Let Fate Choose Your Title…

Posted on September 2, 2014 by D.R.Sylvester

Here’s another short story for Chuck Wendig’s weekly Flash Fiction Challenge, a one-thousand-five-hundred word piece this time. I wrote four thousand words and cutting it down was brutal… As always this is a Sci-Fi piece, so think zero gravity, asteroids, … Continue reading →

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Writing Dialogue, “Part 2!”

Posted on August 30, 2014 by D.R.Sylvester

And let’s kick off with a little recap: In Writing Dialogue Part One, I talked about what we use dialogue for. The three things that your dialogue should be talking about (that I know of) were listed as: a) ADVANCING THE PLOT b) … Continue reading →

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Writing Action Scenes, Part 2

Posted on August 23, 2014 by D.R.Sylvester

And here we are for part two of “Writing Action Scenes”. Do we. Remember what we. Learned last time? (Sorry, sorry, remember not to push it quite that hard. We’re not all Christopher Walken) If memory (and the link to the … Continue reading →

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