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Benjamin W. Bass
I would love to visit Arrakis from Frank Herbert's Dune. I would love to visit the city of Arrakeen and the sietches of the Fremen with their blue within blue eyes. And, lets face it, who doesn't want to see and giant sandworm?
Benjamin W. Bass
This summer, I wish I could've read more than I actually did. With finishing my book, getting it published, and still commuting 90 miles a day - most of my reading comes via Audiobooks.
I am slowly making my way through a few print books from some fellow indie-authors, though. Such as "Camp Lenape" by Timothy R. Baldwin and "Dead Queen's War" by Joseph S. Samaniego.
I'm also ARC reading "The End: Humanity's Fall" by 1st time author Justin Scott Hawks.
On audible, though, I've worked my way through Extinction Shadow by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Paige's Story by A.J. Bass, and The Sidekick's Initiative by Barry J. Hutchison... They are all really good books and the audiobook versions are just excellent.
I am slowly making my way through a few print books from some fellow indie-authors, though. Such as "Camp Lenape" by Timothy R. Baldwin and "Dead Queen's War" by Joseph S. Samaniego.
I'm also ARC reading "The End: Humanity's Fall" by 1st time author Justin Scott Hawks.
On audible, though, I've worked my way through Extinction Shadow by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Paige's Story by A.J. Bass, and The Sidekick's Initiative by Barry J. Hutchison... They are all really good books and the audiobook versions are just excellent.
Benjamin W. Bass
This story is a slight mirror of the story of how I met my wife, A.J. Bass (https://www.goodreads.com/AJ_Bass).
She is not a veteran and we did not meet while I was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq. We met at IU. Technically, we met on Livejournal, but that's neither here nor there. We both wrote short stories and we met through our writing.
In 2005 I wrote a short story entitled "Alone In The Light" and it was published in the University's magazine. Afterwards I wrote a "what if" story about meeting A.J. while deployed. Over time, I merged the two stories into one and then built it up to what it is now.
She is not a veteran and we did not meet while I was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq. We met at IU. Technically, we met on Livejournal, but that's neither here nor there. We both wrote short stories and we met through our writing.
In 2005 I wrote a short story entitled "Alone In The Light" and it was published in the University's magazine. Afterwards I wrote a "what if" story about meeting A.J. while deployed. Over time, I merged the two stories into one and then built it up to what it is now.
Benjamin W. Bass
I am currently working on marketing Alone In The Light... but once I've had some time off, I will be returning to the writing desk for my next project. A currently untitled story of a family dealing with some peculiar experiences in their dreams.
It is nothing like Alone In The Light. This one will be more of a dark-comedy not based in real life. I think I spent too much emotional energy on Alone In The Light... I need to write something a little less intense.
It is nothing like Alone In The Light. This one will be more of a dark-comedy not based in real life. I think I spent too much emotional energy on Alone In The Light... I need to write something a little less intense.
Benjamin W. Bass
Write. Read. Write some more.
That's it. If you want to write, you need to find a time to sit down and finish things. Your first draft will be garbage. That's a fact. Your finished draft might have a typo in it (mine has 2). But you need to write.
Get that first draft down from start to finish. Then go over it and find out why it's a bad draft. Fix the bad spots, add to the weak spots, remove the spots that don't work... in the end, you should be very happy with what you've come up with.
That's it. If you want to write, you need to find a time to sit down and finish things. Your first draft will be garbage. That's a fact. Your finished draft might have a typo in it (mine has 2). But you need to write.
Get that first draft down from start to finish. Then go over it and find out why it's a bad draft. Fix the bad spots, add to the weak spots, remove the spots that don't work... in the end, you should be very happy with what you've come up with.
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