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Author Craft / Re: Published Author On Board
« on: September 03, 2009, 01:43:14 AM »
Non-fiction does not seem to open any doors to fiction writing. I have been told by agents:

It confuses the readers
Why bother? There is more money in nonfiction
It is harder to market

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Author Craft / Re: Keeping track of characters...
« on: September 01, 2009, 11:08:47 PM »
Funny. I am sitting here thinking "Jeebus, I got to make a list. I can't even remember the town names."

The serial novel online that I am writing is not that difficult. I just kill someone if I feel I am balancing to many people.

I think working as a programmer and doing flowcharts helped me a lot.

The real problem is, for me, in writing nonfiction. For instance I am writing about the Baltic. Place names alone require a lexicon. For example: One city can have the original name, the German name, the Jewish name, and the Soviet name.  Ack!

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Author Craft / Re: Published Author On Board
« on: September 01, 2009, 11:02:55 PM »
Oh, the site for the serial novel: http://theamericanapocalypse.blogspot.com/

 :-*

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Author Craft / Re: Published Author On Board
« on: September 01, 2009, 09:04:49 PM »
Hello,

I am a published author, but not in what a lot of people here might read. Judging from my sales I think I can say almost everybody actually. 

I wrote "Police Battalions of the Third Reich" and "SS-Polizei: Memories of Poland."   

I writing two books now. "The Einsatzgruppen in the Baltic" is the working title.  The other is a serial novel on my blog. It is "American Apocalypse." The first volume is being edited so I can shop it around.  Now I am writing Part 2. 

This is what someone else wrote:

Not sure where to post this, but lately I've been reading some pretty good doom fiction.  The other day I was cruising the comments over at http://www.calculatedriskblog.com, and came across a reference to a serial novel being posted on-line.  I checked it out, and found it to be quite addictive.  It starts out in the not too distant future; the first couple of chapters could have been written by a contemporary homeless person today.  However, the world starts shifting rapidly for the protagonist Gardner and his little band.  What I find especially illuminating about the novel is the author nova's exploration of different responses to the crisis that devolves: there are the Burners who are pissed off at the system, the Tree People who are more or less primitivists, the Movers who are trying to obey the Federal Government's shifting decrees about where to go for help, etc.  And of course a Prepper who retreats into his basement with all his guns and goodies.  Not for the faint of heart; nova's depiction of the future is rated "R" for graphic violence.

Oh, it is also has Freya the Goddess. She has returned as a 12 year old girl.

Anyways, this looks like a cool place.

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