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I've known Geoffrey for many years. He is a gifted, sometimes evil, gamer, and has been since youth. He kicked butt in Axis&Allies and Titan I've heard.

His dad wrote software for the military, so it made sense for Geoffrey to get me into it. His first piece of software? A Chemical Weapons Attack Simulator for the USAF. Since then, he's built websites professionally and browser-based multiplayer kingdom games.

That history perhaps explains the action-adventure war focus of much of Geoffrey's writing. In 2003, Juxta, Magi was his first attempt at epic fantasy. The muse demanded a sci-fi war book, so he wrote R.A.E.C.E. Genesis.

Often a strong central character is introduced that must learn and make friends to meet an urgent challenge. Growth, d
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Resist the Urge to Explain

There is a textbook I have used repeatedly in school called, “Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, By Browne and King” and in that book they talk about R.U.E. Resist the Urge to Explain.

We get so many stories where it starts out, and the narrator essentially steps forward and starts explaining stuff. It's always very important stuff to the story, but it's not what we're looking for in our magazine. W Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 31, 2014 10:05 Tags: resist-the-urge-to-explain, writing-advice
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Juxta, Magi

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Winter's Line ("W" #1)

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Zombie Flick

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Potato Vengeance / Evelyn's...

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The Witch ("W" #2)

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Untied Shoelaces of the Min...

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Lost & Found: The Crimson Path

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Geoffrey Porter Geoffrey Porter said: " sometimes I pick this up and read a bit and put it away, it's really great dark poetry, but I tend to prefer a low dose so I go slowly

even at 19%, I feel it's worth the ticket price, even the rest of the pages are blank which they aren't
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