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Jimmy Thomson

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Jimmy Thomson Never really suffered it but when I get wheelspin in a story, I just go and write something completely different and then come back to it. Robert McKe…moreNever really suffered it but when I get wheelspin in a story, I just go and write something completely different and then come back to it. Robert McKee, the author of the screenwriting bible 'Story', recommends consciously thinking about the issue that is blocking you before you go to sleep. Often, the first thought you have the next day will be the answer to your problem. Gym and cycling also help to work out tangled storylines.(less)
Jimmy Thomson It's the closest you will ever be to playing God. All those arguments you lost because you didn't think of the killer witty line, now you can replay t…moreIt's the closest you will ever be to playing God. All those arguments you lost because you didn't think of the killer witty line, now you can replay them and win. All the people who have ever done you any harm, you can make their fictional lives Hell even if you can't touch them in the real world. And you get to work in your pyjamas. (less)
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Mole Creek by James   Dunbar
" That's a very perceptive critique although I have to confess I can't recall ever having read Robert Goddard. The novel was scaled down from a similar ...more "
Mole Creek by James   Dunbar
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The first book published under the name James Dunbar, the same author has published under the name of Jimmy Thomson.

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“This was a pattern America would repeat throughout Latin America where any government, no matter how corrupt, brutal or oppressive, was supported in preference to popular socialism.”
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