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Marti Ward
Klandor - I'd really like to meet the yolti! Of course, several of the characters ARE me travelling there in spirit... Irene, Don, Lorraine, Lennis, Yuri, Yvonne...
Marti Ward
"Writer's Block" - sorry that was two words not two sentences.
It's more
"Pantser can't figure out what ends can be tied up in this book.
Plotter finds someone else has used this idea before."
It's more
"Pantser can't figure out what ends can be tied up in this book.
Plotter finds someone else has used this idea before."
Marti Ward
You realize it's summer now - half way through. So I've already read a stck including Charlie Holmberg's Numina series and Abigail Manning's Once upon a Rhyme series and Kathleen Bird's steampunk retellings and Adven trilogy and Caren Hahn's Wallkeepr and Hatched series and I also reread Asimov's Caves of Steel and Naked Sun (most of these I have reviewed on Amazon/Goodreads and/or am reviewing for Clean Fiction Magazine).
In terms of plans, I'm planning to reread/review some of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN books and the early R.A.Spratt Friday Barnes books (don't like the latest ones). Then I'm looking forward to reading the Train Flight (trilogy) by Elizabeth Newton because she targets the same 8-108 audience I do with my Quantum Talents series (and generally those I've mentioned earlier are suitable too - getting to know the past and future of this demographic).
Basically, things don't stay a plan long as I generally read a novella a day (or longer books over two or three days). So I really like books that have well-defined acts/parts and nice clear stopping points (so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour) - my first three books didn't, but the next three do (in fact the Rising series is also now available as individual novellas).
In terms of plans, I'm planning to reread/review some of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN books and the early R.A.Spratt Friday Barnes books (don't like the latest ones). Then I'm looking forward to reading the Train Flight (trilogy) by Elizabeth Newton because she targets the same 8-108 audience I do with my Quantum Talents series (and generally those I've mentioned earlier are suitable too - getting to know the past and future of this demographic).
Basically, things don't stay a plan long as I generally read a novella a day (or longer books over two or three days). So I really like books that have well-defined acts/parts and nice clear stopping points (so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour) - my first three books didn't, but the next three do (in fact the Rising series is also now available as individual novellas).
Marti Ward
Mystery - not to me!! I have written a two part tale of meeting men with blades on a bridge (in different countries - and in one case it was used to kill, and in the other it Taureg who it turned out was trying to sell me the scimitar). There there might be a few skeletons in closets, or bullying episodes (and how I dealt with them), some of which are making thei way in disguised form into my stories. Then of course there's all the different schools and universities I've been too - in a dozen countries...
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