Category Archives: fiction
How Do You Write Fiction?
During my Military Writers Society of America weekend forum last month, we had a lot of discussion about how to write fiction. Some of the nonfiction writers suggested that writing fiction was very different from writing nonfiction. I’ve never bought into that idea. Continue reading
Weekly Freebie
This week, my weekly Freebie is a chapter from “Once A Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat and Romance in World War I,” published in 2010 and awarded a Bronze Medal in the Historical Fiction category of the Military Writers Society of America 2011 Annual Book Awards. Continue reading
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Second Person Narrative Fiction
Recently, there has been a bit of discussion about the use of a second-person point-of-view narrative in fiction on the excellent Self-Publishing Yahoo Group. I made the comment that second person POV is a difficult thing to do well, particularly for a complete novel. Continue reading
New Short Story Collection – Rather Shorts
We just released my latest short story collection, six soft-boiled tales of low-level crime in the small North Texas town of Rather. If you’ve already read my earlier collection of shorts, Pilots and Normal People, the first two stories in … Continue reading
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Rather Shorts – Gentle Tales of Small-Town Crime
Well, today I wrapped up the fourth short story of a planned five that will be published as an eBook titled Rather Shorts. The main character is Chief of Police Orin Cage, who strives to maintain law and order in the small North Texas town of Rather (pop. 4,000 give or take a few). He’s assisted, although sometimes Orin feels it’s more like hindered, by his chief deputy Bobby Lee Reynolds. Continue reading
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