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James Foreman

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in West Virginia, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Young Adult

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Rather than list James's meagre accomplishments, like his story in the highly-praised Amazon bestseller Machine of Death anthology, the author decided that the best way to serve his audience in this "bio" is to teach them something that they perhaps did not know.

"Any chump can write a story," he said. "But you have be a special kind of chump to add skeletons to it."

If you really want to impress your audience, adding skeletons is the best possible way. The heart of any story is a conflict, and we all learned the four main types of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. carnival rides and man vs. supernatural evil. There is no conflict to throw against your main characters that speaks to an audience better than skeletons.

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La Máquina de la Muerte
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Matthew Bennardo (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Scott C. (Illustrator)

3.93 avg rating — 7,448 ratings — published 2010 — 18 editions

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“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

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“and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

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“Researchers into bird communication have revealed the astonishing fact that not only do ravens listen to the gossip of neighbouring flocks, but they pay especially close attention when it tells of a reversal in another bird’s status.”
― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

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