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Eric J. Juneau

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Eric Juneau is a software engineer living in Minnesota with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies are writing, video games, reading, and eating as much barbecue as he can find. His writing philosophy is "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterson)

He blogs somewhat regularly about his quest to become a 'capital-A' Author at http://ericjuneaubooks.com.
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Eric J. Juneau I try to treat writer's block as an illusion. At the top of each first draft I write, in bold, "I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO WRITE BADLY". This keeps me m…moreI try to treat writer's block as an illusion. At the top of each first draft I write, in bold, "I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO WRITE BADLY". This keeps me moving forward on the manuscript, because I have the knowledge I can always "fix it in post".(less)
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Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David

It reminded me a little of Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear, but only in terms of story structure. It is essentially a bildungsroman from rags to riches back to rags again. Or you could interpret it as a knight’s adventure that breaks some tropes along the way (i.e., the story starts with the protagonist fending off the knight whose wife he just slept wit

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