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Lance Karlson

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As a geologist I’ve always had a fascination with Central America – balancing on the edge of the Caribbean plate and bubbling with volcanoes – but my experiences there ignited my passion for a far more reactive history. Namely, the story of Manuel Noriega. What intrigued me most were the stories about ‘las cintas’– a series of clandestine recordings used by Noriega to blackmail his way to power. And what happened to those tapes? Nobody knows. The opportunity to fill history with a novel was too enticing to ignore.

My passion for writing has been juggled with a career in mining since completing university in Australia and the USA. Writing plays became an integral part of a year as a theatre director and actor at Cornell in NY, but my dream ha ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Lance Karlson Through developing a map of the novel before writing. If you have each chapter planned out with key events and steps, the writing between should piece…moreThrough developing a map of the novel before writing. If you have each chapter planned out with key events and steps, the writing between should piece together naturally. If it doesn't come, use that time to plan the chapters down to small details (like what the weather is like), and how certain details and descriptions may be foreshadowing or building suspense for the next scene. Plan in detail what the settings look like, what the characters are wearing, what their backstories are etc.
Add some music and coffee, remove all distractions, and then write!(less)
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Lance Karlson Seeing progress - both in quality and word count
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The Noriega Tapes
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“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.”
― Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
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