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November 18, 2012 06:10 AM UTC --
Most of us met here over five years ago, during the course of an infamous contest called First Chapters, or during one of its follow-ons. If you could go back to the moment when you made the decision . . .
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October 18, 2011 11:52 AM UTC --
We're fast approaching our 500th thread. Most of us are still writing, revising and plotting. How do we stay motivated to write over the months and years?
Since July 8th of this year . . .
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September 30, 2011 02:37 PM UTC --
In past years I've provided an all in one place table of DB contest entries. I'm not sure how much value that adds this time, but here it is, all of the entries in alphabetical order:
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September 21, 2011 02:08 PM UTC --
In a nutshell: When people repeatedly do things that they regret, or that are self-defeating, it's usually because they put themselves in a situation where their basic instincts, the parts of the brain . . .
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April 08, 2011 10:06 AM UTC --
I usually write in third person, but I often have trouble getting deep into a character's thoughts in third person. I've taken to rewriting problem scenes in first person from various . . .
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January 29, 2011 12:35 AM UTC --
As a writer I've been trying to figure out what makes a novel exceptional. What do I see as a reader that makes one novel great and another one just sort of okay?
It seems to me that with a great . . .
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January 07, 2011 10:27 AM UTC --
A lot of people over the years have scratched their heads and wondered what on Earth the Japanese were thinking when they attacked the US at Pearl Harbor. The US of late 1941 had an overwhelming . . .
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October 04, 2010 01:30 PM UTC --
I've been active in Chicago area cons for a number of years, but with the release of my novel Exchange (formerly Bear Country) I've started going a bit further afield. This past weekend I went . . .
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September 17, 2010 10:49 AM UTC --
It strikes me that the vast majority of people who are trying to be published writers would be far better off if they viewed it as a hobby rather than a potential career, and a lot of them would be . . .
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July 23, 2010 08:24 PM UTC --
Hat tip to Blitzkrieg Legend, by Karl-Heinz Frieser.
I knew that the Germans weren’t prepared for a long war at the start of World War II, but if Frieser is right, going to war . . .
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July 23, 2010 08:12 PM UTC --
This is set of brief brainstorming ideas for alternate history. Many of them were posted earlier on the alternatehistory.com forum.
1. Stalin Heads East: In the . . .
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June 25, 2010 04:02 PM UTC --
My alternate history novel Exchange isn't officially released until July 6th, but it's showing up at the on-line bookstores already.
Amazon has it listed as In Stock.
Barnes and Nobles.com . . .
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June 24, 2010 08:05 PM UTC --
This is a series of posts I made in another setting. They're in chronological order rather than the blog normal of reverse chronological because you're reading them after the fact. . . .
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March 26, 2010 04:04 PM UTC --
Note: These are brief, alternate history ideas from my February 2010 Alternate History Newsletter
1. Stalin Heads East: In the late 1930s, Stalin faced the possibility . . .
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March 02, 2010 10:00 AM UTC --
This is from the December 2009 edition of my Alternate History Newsletter:
It’s May 1935. Poland’s long term leader Józef Piłsudski has died of liver cancer (as . . .
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March 02, 2010 09:55 AM UTC --
This is from the comments section of my August 2009 Alternate History Newsletter.
A German A-bomb? How might that have happened? It wouldn't have been easy I suppose . . .
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March 02, 2010 09:44 AM UTC --
Panama Canal effort fails. What are the consequences? Or alternatively, what if the French effort had succeeded, opening a French-run canal in the mid-1890s?
How Bad Could It . . .
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March 02, 2010 09:41 AM UTC --
Starting Around the time of the Medieval Warm period, temperature goes up to the level at the highest point of the last interglacial. If we can believe Wikipedia (see reprint) the interglacial . . .
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March 02, 2010 09:36 AM UTC --
Italy has joined World War II. Benny the Moose is no longer with us and you’re in charge of his ramshackle, poorly trained and equipped armed forces. Let’s assume that your goal is . . .
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March 02, 2010 09:33 AM UTC --
This is from the August 2009 version of my AH Newsletter.
Challenge: Is That The Best They Could Have Done?
I’ve been so busy with the novel writing that I’ve . . .
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