Where Fiction and Reality Meet
I have come bearing bad news if you are a writer or want to be one. I know this will come as a shock to most people, but I am afraid there is just no getting around it. So, here I go. There are no more… new? Untold? stories in the world. There! I said... Continue Reading →
If the 4 SD cards that I carry in a small container securely in my backpack with 67 audio books each doesn’t tell you that I am a veracious reader, I don't know what will. My name is Robert Kingett, and my literature dives have been into stories ranging from fictional family stories to dastardly,... Continue Reading →
The internet can be a strange place. It’s a place some self-appointed experts have claimed is a danger to our ability to connect and communicate in real-life scenarios, but it’s also a place, as I’m sure many of you have discovered, where we have the opportunity to meet people we might never had connected with... Continue Reading →
Okay. So write me a novel. No, don't look at me like that. Go think of completely new characters, complete with back stories, an entire setting, and a fully developed plotline. Stat. I still don't know what Stat is, but I like saying it. Write me a novel! Stat! No? Not sure where to start?... Continue Reading →
You said what now? So an acquaintance of mine said on Twitter that he was working on a screenplay and posted a picture of his laptop with it open. Being the nosy inquisitive person I am, I enlarged the picture to read what he had written. Now, I know nothing about the story or the... Continue Reading →
You said what now? So an acquaintance of mine said on Twitter that he was working on a screenplay and posted a picture of his laptop with it open. Being the nosy inquisitive person I am, I enlarged the picture to read what he had written. Now, I know nothing about the story or the... Continue Reading →
Where are we now? Okay, so we've gone over turning an idea into a story. We have looked at how important words can be to describe a scene. Let's hit on a point some writers don't think about a lot: the setting. Where and when we are can color a story as much as the... Continue Reading →
Where are we now? Okay, so we've gone over turning an idea into a story. We have looked at how important words can be to describe a scene. Let's hit on a point some writers don't think about a lot: the setting. Where and when we are can color a story as much as the... Continue Reading →
It was a dark and stormy night... So let's get down to the brass tacks, the things that make a good writer a great writer—invoking emotion using the printed word, for example. Using images, it is so much easier since your brain can take visual information and then fill a story in for it, creating... Continue Reading →
It was a dark and stormy night... So let's get down to the brass tacks, the things that make a good writer a great writer—invoking emotion using the printed word, for example. Using images, it is so much easier since your brain can take visual information and then fill a story in for it, creating... Continue Reading →
Today we're gonna do something different cause my lovely enabler, Lisa, is a WONDERFUL person and lets me babble on pretty much just about anything, as long as there's a cover in there somewhere. So, we've been chatting a bit back and forth about how the covers for the M/M genre seem to be, well,... Continue Reading →
Today we're gonna do something different cause my lovely enabler, Lisa, is a WONDERFUL person and lets me babble on pretty much just about anything, as long as there's a cover in there somewhere. So, we've been chatting a bit back and forth about how the covers for the M/M genre seem to be, well,... Continue Reading →
"I had this idea once." How many times have you told someone you were a writer and, within nanoseconds, heard those four innocent little words balloon into what promises to be a story which, even if it stopped at three words, is WAY too long? We all have ideas. All of us. Imagination is the... Continue Reading →
So the week’s folder of covers that was sent to me was slim pickins. No not the actor but sadly, the book covers I had to choose from. (For those of you in the huh? Slim Pickens (spelled differently) was an American actor that for some reason, even though I don't think I've ever seen... Continue Reading →
So the week’s folder of covers that was sent to me was slim pickins. No not the actor but sadly, the book covers I had to choose from. (For those of you in the huh? Slim Pickens (spelled differently) was an American actor that for some reason, even though I don't think I've ever seen... Continue Reading →
Once upon a time... There was a small, troubled child who grew up to be a larger, more troubled teenager. He had entered that phase of life when the male body decides that life on its own isn't nearly as much fun as it can be dosed with hormones and sexual confusion. In the end... Continue Reading →
I have a friend who has gotten bad covers made for her, more than once. I’m not going to point fingers to say who the artists were or what publishers she used that seem to believe that such atrocities will actually sell books to anyone that isn’t listening to them on audio book; but suffice... Continue Reading →
I have a friend who has gotten bad covers made for her, more than once. I’m not going to point fingers to say who the artists were or what publishers she used that seem to believe that such atrocities will actually sell books to anyone that isn’t listening to them on audio book; but suffice... Continue Reading →
There is this joke... So on the seventh day God went golfing with some friends and the conversation of the new world He had created came up. Zeus said that he liked the way God had let that Adam fellow name everything, he thought that was a nice touch making the experience more interactive, that's... Continue Reading →
There is this joke... So on the seventh day God went golfing with some friends and the conversation of the new world He had created came up. Zeus said that he liked the way God had let that Adam fellow name everything, he thought that was a nice touch making the experience more interactive, that's... Continue Reading →
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