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    I try to keep the tension level up. I want my readers to keep turning pages afraid they might miss something. I also put Easter eggs in places which hatch a dozen chapters later. Character is important of course but- I like to put them in danger. Action-adventure is all about 1) creating characters people like and 2) abusing them relentlessly!
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    >>The two of them were covered in mud and blood. The shovels were cracked, and the rain washed the tombstone cleaned. They had just buried their friend for the fourth time this week. What was going on? It sounds like they were burying him in Steven King's Pest Cemetery.
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    These tragic stories of abandoned books are just devastating. How can we as writers avoid this terrible fate for our books in this era of instant gratification? A Youtube videographer has recently stated that a video has about thirty seconds to catch a viewers eye. How can the written word compete?
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    OK... this one is a little off color. {spoiler] [/spoiler]
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    You never know who you'll run into at Walmart
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    Hollywood has NEVER been good at sci-fi. For every good sci-fi movie or TV series, there are a hundred stinkers. There is only one sci-fi television series that I know of that ran its entire story arc and was finished. Most were just canceled, damn all the hanging plots or fans. Hollywood thinks they are making sci-fi for kids but that's not the case. There is a huge market for sci-fi of ALL ages and if they'll make it without the low budgets, bad scripts, nobody actors and political shite- it can make huge bank. When you play mickey-mouse games with it, you turn what was a multi-billion$ franchise into WORTHLE$$. I was afraid of this when Disney purchased it. Freedom fighters vs a huge dark tyrannical repressive empire is not the sort of plot Disney has been successful with.
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    How to take a multi-billion$ franchise and make it worthless.
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    The Flying Spaghetti Monster Nebula
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    Been there. Done that. Wear the scars. They get to walk away when it's over and have a merry old life. If you are gay, you don't. You wasted your time and energy on someone that is only capable of taking, not giving. I'm not saying you are crazy if you do this but... insanity is often defined as repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
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    Who'll say no to those eyes?
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    The Pathfinders (preview) ______________________________ “What do you mean, I’m the father?” Tom poured two drinks and slid one across the bar. "Let's see. It was your idea Dan." "But... but... It was just so obvious. Others were suggesting it too." Tom sipped the whiskey and said, " No one with your stature and reputation. Oh sure, lot's of people have been thinking about it but you are the one that got behind and pushed." Dan shook his head, "Well, yeah. I suppose whe
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    The Pathfinders (preview) ______________________________ “What do you mean, I’m the father?” Tom poured two drinks and slid one across the bar. "Let's see. It was your idea Dan." "But... but... It was so obvious. Others were suggesting it too." Tom sipped the whiskey and said, " No one with your stature and reputation. Oh sure, lot's of people have been thinking about it but you are the one that got behind and pushed." Dan shook his head, "Well, yeah. I suppose when you run your mouth, you've got to put up or shut up." "Whoa there Dan. You did a LOT more than put up. Putting your patents and royalties in one of the largest trusts in history to fund what will be a multi-generational effort counts as putting up." "Even while the war was still going on people were complaining about the stand down on surveys and colonization. A lot of people were thinking about restarting the Alliance Survey Service." Tom laughed and said, "Well at least now it won't have the acronym A.S.S." He raised his glass and said, "To the Pathfinders. This is going to be a lot of fun." >>The Pathfinders
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    Is your cat doing calculus? Does he watch the science and Discovery channels all the time? Maybe it's time for an intervention.
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    Sex Appeal

    JamesSavik commented on Comicality's blog entry in Writing World

    Different things turn on different people. Some people like legs, some like muscles, some like pecs and so forth. To me as a freckled half-ginger, a day-walker if you will, nothing is sexier than really nice skin. *Purrs loudly* 😼 What is really fun is finding out that you and your significant other have complimentary buttons. For instance: while I was struck nearly incoherent by his hot, hot skin, he was in a similar state over my half-ginger attributes. It is this sort of chemistry and reaction that you may have to clean up afterwards with a mop a bucket.
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