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In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Who’s In Charge Here? (Guest Post) * Correction * Because This Directly Feeds * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “What If You’re New to Writing and Don’t Know How to Fix Things?” title of an article by Tiffany Yates Martin in Jane Friedman’s weekly blog digest Lucky you. You’re as pure as your characters. Now you only need to push down the myth that things need to be ‘fixed.’ Run a spell check, have a first reader check for wrong words and inconsistencies, then publish and start the next story. … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * One Writer Disagrees re Marketing * The Passing of an Era * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “Starting a novel for me is always fun. The key is to not care, and I do mean that exactly as it sounds. If I allowed myself to care in the slightest, made writing the novel some major thing that I had to pick carefully on, I would freeze down and never write a word.” Dean Wesley Smith “The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * I’ll Get to the Lie * The Number One Lie Professional Fiction… * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.” John le Carre’ “Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson I’ll Get to the Lie in a moment, but first, as a preface, something I got from a friend via email. No doubt he thought it was funny: “In a brief exchange in a book I read a while ago, two undercover FBI agents were on … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * No More Editing * Why No Streak Challenge? * Mentorships End * A New Story * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” Alfred Hitchcock “Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.” Alfred Hitchcock “If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.” Alfred Hitchcock “Wanting or believing in something—the concept of critique groups, for example—does not validate its usefulness.” Harvey No More Editing I’ve decided … Read more

In today’s Journal * The Origin Story Wrapped * No More Stupid Streak Challenge * Too Necessary for “Of Interest” * Of Interest The Origin Story Wrapped Every novel writes differently. Yawn, stretch. How many times have I said that? I keep waiting for them to run out of new ways to write and start repeating. Hasn’t happened yet. As far as I can remember, I’ve never written any story of any length before in which I wrote the ending long before the entire story was laid out. I did that with this one. A few days ago (Writing Day … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quotes of the Day * Adios TKZ * What Constitutes a Run-On Sentence * Pearl Harbor Day * Of Interest Quotes of the Day “Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.” Agnes Moorehead “If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.” Chuck Yeager “Dare to be bad.” Nina Kiriki Hoffman Adios TKZ After several years of checking The Kill Zone blog every day, my own blog post yesterday caused me to look … Read more