Author: andrewmfriday
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The Consortium Saga Omnibus hardcover now available on B&N
Up until now I had placed the ebook version of The Consortium Saga: Omnibus on Barnes and Noble online bookstore. Now the hardcover version is available. Check it out. Here are all my books on Barnes and Noble.com. And here are all the other bookstores where it’s ready for purchase. My Linktree Cover design by…
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Friday’s Findings: The Scariest Part of Writing
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” -Stephen King Friday’s Findings My Linktree Photo by Greg
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Friday’s Findings: What’s Scaring Me This Halloween
Last year I read Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher during the Halloween season and it was so much fun I decided to read something scary every October. This year, I decided to read Crumb Hill. Here are my thoughts on this creepy tome: Crumb Hill: A Town History by Ethan…
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What Does NaNoWriMo Look Like Now?
Never fear, the spirit of NaNoWriMo lives on, even if the website is gone. The challenge is to now find your own community to write with, whether that is online or in-person. And of course, you can write by yourself. Whatever your goals have been for the November challenge of writing 50k words, you have…
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Friday’s Findings: Keeping a Writing Journal
I work as a technical editor for an airline. A year and a half ago, my department moved into the gigantic new hangar the airline built. While I love the new building, I never thought it would help me in my writing. But it does. It just so happens the science fiction novella I’m working…
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Armchair Art Share
I have loved art since I was a kid; I love to make it, love at it, and talk about it. I have also been studying art history on the side – for fun – and I’ve discovered art reflects humanity at all points in history. Check out my YouTube channel Armchair Art Share and…
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Is It Preptober?
Next month will be the first November in decades that the official NaNoWriMo website will not exist. Does this mean no National Novel Writing Month? Will there be a NaNoWriMo community? Should I do NaNoWriMo? I can only speak for myself, but I plan to do NaNoWriMo. Which means this is Preptober. Preptober: It’s a…
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Friday’s Findings: Ask Why
Why Writers Should Ask “Why” Before Writing a Novel Before a writer sketches an outline, builds a character profile, or writes the first sentence, there’s a question worth pausing to ask: Why am I writing this novel? Most of the time, I write for fun. I never think about the why. But I keep coming…
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Test Your Novel’s Potential
“Is my novel idea worth pursuing?” How can you know you will fall in love with your novel without spending hours of writing, stringing together thousands of words, and creating dozens of scenes before realizing it doesn’t work? Try this: Jessica Brody, author of Save the Cat Writes a Novel, recommends just writing the single…
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