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James Field
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The Bell Tower Suite
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2014
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Gathering Clouds...
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2012
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Son of Peace: A Modern Historical Novel of Buddha
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Life in the Clouds: Strange Chronicles from a Stalled Century
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White Noise
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2013
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Gypsy Spell
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2013
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Doomsday Diary (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #9)
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Psycho Psyche (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #7)
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2015
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Yoikes (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #8)
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Fast Down
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How to Disrupt Your Character's Ordinary World
This post is part eighteen of a series on story structure for fiction writers—practical, straightforward, and designed to help you build stories that actually work.
Last week we looked at the inciting incident: the event that sets the main story in motion.
But simply having something happen isn't enough.
It has to matter.
More importantly, it has to upset something.
Your protagonist had a life before y Read more of this blog post »
Last week we looked at the inciting incident: the event that sets the main story in motion.
But simply having something happen isn't enough.
It has to matter.
More importantly, it has to upset something.
Your protagonist had a life before y Read more of this blog post »
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America:
"Fascinating history providing a different perspective but also a sample of the last millennium. As a result, it's a overview and examples rather than comprehensive history of one particular Nation. It highlighted how much I don't know and in that, it"
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"An excellent adventure balancing some great fae plotting with YA romance - this book managed to deliver a satisfying conclusion to the story. I was quite surprised at how much the plot kept my attention. It was a little frenetic and the romance was b"
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"(B) 75% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: It's description-over-dialogue, nonlinear storytelling. A tedious read, owing to many lengthy and meandering asides." |
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"(B+) 76% | Good
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #15-21 can be found here: Green Lanterns, Vol. 3: Polarity." |
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Have any of you read The Great Automatic Grammatizator? It was first published by Roald Dahl in his 1953 adult short story collection 'Someone Like Yo
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Thank you so much, Katie. I’m very grateful for this thoughtful review.
I’m especially pleased that the slower build and the themes of destiny, purpose ...more " |
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is on page 70 of 579 of White Silence, Red Justice: I've been delighted to see the first readers starting White Silence, Red Justice. Writing a novel set in Arctic Norway, where I live, was a very different experience from writing my earlier books. I hope the landscape becomes as much a character in the story as the people. If you've started reading, I'd love to hear your thoughts as you go. Happy reading!
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Thank you so much for this generous, thoughtful, and wonderfully detailed review.
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Exciting. Are you publishing through a publisher or independently?
Takk, Arnar! Jeg gir den ut selv som indieforfatter. Boken foregår i Nord-Norge og k ...more " |
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“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often lost with childhood. By adulthood humans had trained themselves to be coy and manipulative in response to the coy and manipulative society in which they lived, which led them to believe that everyone was trying to be as coy and manipulative as themselves and were uncertain about what was true and what was not. Beyond their few flashes of clarity, everything became a muddle of colliding doubts.”
― The Speaker for the Trees
― The Speaker for the Trees
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
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“The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Traumatic events can be compared to facing a demon pitcher on the baseball diamond. Life tells us we have to take a swing at the ball, but engaging this demon comes with consequences. If you make first base, you’ll feel the need to sleep. Not so bad. Second, you’ll want to forget it all happened. Don’t we all? But third base brings the onset of madness and if you step off the plate there’s only death. In the great game of life, sometimes it’s better to strike out than hit a home run. After all, you can relax in the Dugout with friends until you’re ready to knock the demon out of the park.”
Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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Luke wrote: "Hi, James. There's a typo in the blurb for The Bell Tower Suite:he doesn't believes in ghosts
I'm putting it here so you can delete this comment after you see it."
Luke wrote: "Hi, James. There's a typo in the blurb for The Bell Tower Suite:
he doesn't believes in ghosts
I'm putting it here so you can delete this comment after you see it."
Thanks Luke. Those typos get in everywhere. Strange how blind we become sometimes!
Hi, James. There's a typo in the blurb for The Bell Tower Suite:he doesn't believes in ghosts
I'm putting it here so you can delete this comment after you see it.
"It wasn’t about fixing my life on the surface, but about seeing that I was not entirely defined by what was happening inside my head. That small shift created space — and in that space, things slowly began to change."—James Field
Thanks for sharing this insight, James. I'm adding it to my quotes wall.
Hello James,Thank you for accepting my friend request. I’m glad to connect with you here.
Hi James,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin