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I am on a bit of a roll this past weekend. I managed to get through a couple of things in my backlog stack of many things. I picked this up and it was a quick, easy read. I'm old fashioned, surprisingly, as I still love the feel of paper and a bookshelf I can go do when the power's out, so I have this in paperback. I also put a lot of Post-it Flags on various pages of interest. This book talks about a topic and then shows how it is done in a handful of movies that you have probably seen. There are also handy little exercises at the end of each chapter that I think would genuinely help. I've held the book off to the side so that I can give this a whirl on two of my writing projects. If you are a "seat of your pantser" writer, this approach might help with outlining. I'm going to give it a try. It's worth a read.

I finally beat the main game and have all the achievements. I've started the DLC, of which there are 3. Unfortunately, DLC 1, the New God, takes the worst parts of the main game and focuses on them completely. To me at least. I hate timed things a LOT. Especially timed things where if you mess up, you fall to your death and have to start again. The main game had a fair few of those, but the worst of them were optional. Not so with DLC 1. DLC 1 is focused totally on that crap. *sighs*

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So, I tend to do this naturally, as most writers in Fantasy and Science Fiction would. If you spend the time building a world, you want more than one story in it. It's only natural to do the same with contemporary stories and it's always a little delight for the reader when it happens. Not too dissimilar to the delight you experience when Spider-Man shows up in Captain America Civil War.

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George R.R. Martin is on year 10(?) and counting for Winds of Winter, the next book in the series. So yeah. It can take awhile.

I picked up this book recently in my never ending quest to improve my writing skill set. It's a short book that is a very quick read. I'd recommend it as it targets a weakness that a lot of stories have and it gives practical tips on how to spot the problems and how to fix them Definitely worth the read. It's available on Kindle as well if you like to keep your library digital.

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