Another Christmas, another dawning realization that THE BLUE GOLEM, while much improved since this time last year, still isn’t quite ready for prime time. I was really hoping that three strong drafts would be enough. It’s not. My friend Eugene Polonsky is working on his fifth draft, and he’s really good. On one hand I’m…
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So last week I came up with a beginning sentence and paragraph which works (after nineteen failed attempts), and this morning I came up with a hard Twist ending which also works. This is the very last thing that happens in the novel in the Resolution section, the very last thing the reader experiences before…
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I have a sequence in my upcoming novel where the protagonist, Clay Golem, an 8′ blue behemoth, fights two big cats in a cage underneath the second floor office of a local mob boss reached through a trapdoor in the floor of the office. I had an idea the cats were big—like Sabretooth Tiger big—but…
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I’m taking an online writing / marketing course called Write To Publish by Joe Bunting et al and one of the things I did this week was write a short story which I called THE ROBBERY – A TALE OF THE BLUE GOLEM. The story is a scene adapted from my Fantasy / Noir novel,…
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When I started writing THE BLUE GOLEM in 2014 all I had was a mental image of the first scene, a man waking up in the body of an 8′ tall clay golem in a strange place with knowledge but no memory. I didn’t know anything else and while I wrote the (very rough) first…
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