I am not writing my WIP straight through on a timeline, as if telling a story orally. Usually, I write down scenes or notes about scenes as they come to me, then I insert them into the proper point in the story later. I have also learned to use a rough outline, which I didn’t need for short stories. These two tactics help with the occasional bouts of writer’s block. If I cannot dream up something for one scene, I pick another point in the novel or a scene for which I have notes and start there. In essence, I take what military strategists term the path of “least resistance”. If I am blocked at one point, I go around it to another point that I can overcome easily.
Category: The Art of Writing
Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Book Reviews
Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Book Reviews
http://atthebookshelf.com/2019/07/13/dos-and-donts-of-getting-book-reviews/
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” FIELDS OF GHOSTS “~by Martin Gedge
” FIELDS OF GHOSTS “~by Martin Gedge
https://ourpoetrycorner.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/fields-of-ghosts-by-martin-gedge/
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2019 Society of Authors Award Winners
2019 Society of Authors Award Winners
http://atthebookshelf.com/2019/07/13/2019-society-of-authors-award-winners/
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[BücherinBüchern] Für gemütliche Lesestunden: „Eine Buchhandlung auf Reisen“ und „Das Haus der vergessenen Bücher“ von Christopher Morley
[BücherinBüchern] Für gemütliche Lesestunden: „Eine Buchhandlung auf Reisen“ und „Das Haus der vergessenen Bücher“ von Christopher Morley
New Podcast with James Ellroy
New Podcast with James Ellroy
http://bookpeopleblog.com/2019/07/12/new-podcast-with-james-ellroy/
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Cold talks
Flash Fiction: Backup — The Dark Netizen
I need you on lookout. Keep me posted about the patrols. If any of the soldiers are about to enter the barracks, you give me an alert…
“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print
Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review.
Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.
I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen. I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.
This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.
You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page: www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.
Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.
Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.
Show your appreciation for these stories by leaving a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or other social media.
If you enjoy horror, check out my collection of horror short stories A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror: Stories of wizards, werewolves, serial killers, alien worlds, and the damned, which includes these stories.
Update: July 16, 2019 Interview Broadcast Date
My interview with KSJE, 90.9 FM, will be broadcast on September 18. The interview went very well. Traci asked some very insightful and probing questions that will reveal the underlying meaning of the poems and of the work as a whole. Check KSJE.com periodically to find out the time (it will be in the afternoon most likely).
Update: July 16, 2019: Today I am being Interviewed on KSJE Radio 90.9 FM
Clarification: The interview is only being recorded today. It will not be broadcast until later this summer or fall. Thanks to Traci Hales-Vass for the reminder.
I am being interviewed today on KSJE radio, 90.9 FM (Farmington, NM) at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The host will be Traci Hales-Vass on her Write-On Four Corners program. The topic will be my poetry collection Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover, from which I will do a brief reading. I am grateful to Traci and to KSJE for this opportunity to discuss my work. Please tune in.
You can obtain a e-book version of Nocturne… by following this link to Amazon.
Update: July 16, 2019: Today I am being Interviewed on KSJE Radio 90.9 FM
Clarification: The interview is only being recorded today. It will not be broadcast until later this summer or fall. Thanks to Traci Hales-Vass for the reminder.
I am being interviewed today on KSJE radio, 90.9 FM (Farmington, NM) at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The host will be Traci Hales-Vass on her Write-On Four Corners program. The topic will be my poetry collection Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover, from which I will do a brief reading. I am grateful to Traci and to KSJE for this opportunity to discuss my work. Please tune in.
You can obtain a e-book version of Nocturne… by following this link to Amazon.
Microfiction: Gorgeous — The Dark Netizen
Damn, I look good. No, this is my not vanity speaking. Okay, maybe it is.
Update: July 16, 2019: Today I am being Interviewed on KSJE Radio 90.9 FM
I am being interviewed today on KSJE radio, 90.9 FM (Farmington, NM) at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The host will be Traci Hales-Vass on her Write-On Four Corners program. The topic will be my poetry collection Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover, from which I will do a brief reading. I am grateful to Traci and to KSJE for this opportunity to discuss my work. Please tune in.
You can obtain a e-book version of Nocturne… by following this link to Amazon.
Update: July 16, 2019: Today I am being Interviewed on KSJE Radio 90.9 FM
I am being interviewed today on KSJE radio, 90.9 FM (Farmington, NM) at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The host will be Traci Hales-Vass on her Write-On Four Corners program. The topic will be my poetry collection Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover, from which I will do a brief reading. I am grateful to Traci and to KSJE for this opportunity to discuss my work. Please tune in.
You can obtain a e-book version of Nocturne… by following this link to Amazon.
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 